if you want to do this job - just doit ;-)
i can provide you the mails of the last 12 months ,-) but i will not
filter out what is vacation ,-.)
-steven
> -----Original Message-----
> From: swinog-bounces(a)lists.swinog.ch
> [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] On Behalf Of Tonnerre LOMBARD
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 9:23 AM
> To: swinog(a)swinog.ch
> Subject: [swinog] [RFC] Automatic holiday monitoring tool
>
> Salut,
>
> Since we receive a bunch of out-of-office replies on every
> post to swinog, why not use it for something useful? This is
> what I came up with.
>
> The german c't magazine is publishing an annual survey of IT
> related jobs with regard to income and working conditions. We
> could now monitor the amount of holidays taken per swinog
> user and match it to their profession, so we get a clear
> survey of how many holidays people may take if they have a
> certain title.
>
> For the technical implementation part, it would suffice to
> install a mail filter on the mail servers of the most active
> swinog posters. This filter would automatically authenticate
> cryptographically to an interface and send the name of the
> person it received an out-of-office reply from. The interface
> would then deduce that this person is on a holiday, and
> update its statistics.
>
> This is valuable information! Maybe we should all
> misconfigure our /usr/libexec/vacation in order to get better results.
>
> Tonnerre
>