Autoreply: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten’s personal assistant is checking who is interested

They’re arguably the worst thing that ever happened to mankind – auto replies. Join my fight to get rid of unremarkable out-of-office replies and other auto replies. To help, I’ve collected some great positive exceptions, starting with the one below. Let’s turn automatic into automagic.There is a thin line between helping your contacts and spamming them. I guess all of us had just a few too many emails from people who had exported all their LinkedIn contacts to spam them with a new business opportunity.

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten found a creative new way to promote the (amazing)  The Next Web TNW conference in 2018 when his “personal assistant” Jarvis started emailing his Linkedin contacts. A clever way to use a “spokesperson” to deflect the “upfrontness” of spamming your Linkedin contact list.