I love looking at new sites like this, I think it's great to get the chance to see what others are working on. It tries to tackle an important problem but has a few forseeable side effects.
The most important points I can think of...
It's placed in the signature, it doesn't apply to anyone composing a new message, which is probably a large portion of mail.
It relies on the person sending the message to decide if their e-mail is urgent or not (everyone thinks THEIR message is urgent)
Anyone replying to your mail is probably someone you are waiting for a response from, so really you NEED them to e-mail you, so you can get work done.
It would probably lead to a lot of 'queue jumping', getting phone calls starting "I saw your mailbox is swamped so I thought I'd just call to ask XYZ..."
I do love that it auto updates so that you can see the current status even on an old mail.
Maybe it would be more useful to display an auto updating sig beacon that contains autoresponder info. Your frequent contacts can see what you're up to, if you're about, at a different site, on hol etc. That's closer to the "Away" button on messenger. It would save people typing out a whole e-mail to just get a bounceback message.
The most important points I can think of...
It's placed in the signature, it doesn't apply to anyone composing a new message, which is probably a large portion of mail.
It relies on the person sending the message to decide if their e-mail is urgent or not (everyone thinks THEIR message is urgent)
Anyone replying to your mail is probably someone you are waiting for a response from, so really you NEED them to e-mail you, so you can get work done.
It would probably lead to a lot of 'queue jumping', getting phone calls starting "I saw your mailbox is swamped so I thought I'd just call to ask XYZ..."
I do love that it auto updates so that you can see the current status even on an old mail.
Maybe it would be more useful to display an auto updating sig beacon that contains autoresponder info. Your frequent contacts can see what you're up to, if you're about, at a different site, on hol etc. That's closer to the "Away" button on messenger. It would save people typing out a whole e-mail to just get a bounceback message.