Re: Do not disturb
"This lack of understanding, and the fear of offending who know who, is becoming ridicule and counterproductive."
Maybe the away/busy/etc messages should be user defined then MS and their weird American fetish for politeness can abrogated to the user? After all, isn't that supposed to be one of the goos things about computers? Users can personalise their "experience" but these days MS seems to be defining everything and removing all the customisation options.
(I thought it was supposed to be we Brits who were up our own arses with a fetish for politeness)