You may be worrying about the wrong problem.

"Outlook's Out-of-Office Assistant automatically replies to your incoming
email with a note to the sender that you are not available. While this is a
wonderful way of notifying people that they may not get an immediate
response, there is a personal safety danger.
Recall some of the automated replies you've received. Typically they will
give a note that the person is on vacation, at another facility or contain
other specific information on their whereabouts. It might even contain a
location-specific telephone number. Criminals can send out a big batch of
junk email solely to collect whatever out-of-office messages come back
providing details of absences, and cross-reference the names in the e-mail
with various online address books to discover your home addresses. People
with unusual names living in small towns are especially at risk, because
those addresses would be easier to track down.

You wouldn't go on vacation with a note pinned to your door saying who you
were, how long you were going to be away and when you were coming back. So
why would you put this information in an e-mail when you have no idea who is
going to read it?

Please consider making Out-of-office automatic replies and even voice mail
recordings as generic as possible, only stating that you are away from the
office and not where or why you are gone. Contact phone numbers should be a
telephone number in your building, not your temporary location, so someone
cannot call that number and get a hotel in another state to infer your
whereabouts and that your home and family may be unprotected."

Ray

"bulldozer" wrote in message
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I am using Outlook 2003 SP2 for inter office mail as well as outside
contacts
with trusted clients. When I post an "out of office" auto response is
there
anyway to prevent that from sending spammers and phishers my contact info
(MAC, IP, e-mail addresses) so that they now have a valid target and info
to
spread to others like them?