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by dalicoder 1 view

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It really drives me crazy when I receive a response to someone else's e-mail when the response has nothing to do with me. I.e., misuse of that danged 'Reply All' feature. I like that the feature exists. I dislike people who don't seem to recognize that you can just 'reply to sender' as well!

About top-posting... I find it aggravating when I have to scan past my old post to read the reply. I find that many users that prefer to reply in this fashion forget to trim the old signatures and such from the bottom of the e-mails and end up replying in the middle of the mess.

More aggravating, however, is when my old post ISN'T (caps for emphasis... didn't mean to yell!) included with the reply at all. Since we've gone (mostly) from snail mail to e-mail, people have forgotten how to write in complete thoughts and sentences and this becomes wildly apparent when you cannot refer to what you what you wrote when you are reading the reply.

Finally, while I am terribly guilty of this myself (as is evidenced by the above), LONG e-mails virtually guarantee that I will not be replying right away. Too much effort involved!

--Dave

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by jaqui

and I am irritated at not being able to skim prior postings to view latest message.
top posting means I hit delete generally.
top posters tend to forget the signatures are even there, they never get to the bottom of the email.

as for misplaced replies, yup that is a problem that bothers most people.

by jdclyde

First, is the dreaded joke list.

Why is it so hard to put everyone as BCC, first of all, and then DELETE out all past forwards, so only the joke remains? Don't make me page down 10 times to find that you sent me a lame joke!!!

Professional, worse than the reply all, is the dreaded "everyone" option.

I don't give a ratsass if you will be out of the office for the next two hours. The world will not come to an end, because you are just not that important. Send your message to the two people that might be mildly concerned that hey need to talk to someone else (often someone more pleasent because they don't think the world revolves around them!).

by jamesrl

And my boss has the same peeve.

CCs. Too many of them.

I get literally hundreds of emails a day. I am happy to deal with those where I have some action. In some cases, I need to know information contained in the email.

But in many many many cases, I am copied for no good reason.

If you are copying me to put pressure on my staff, stop right there. You have a concern, come see me,or call me.

If you are trying to whip up support for something - see above.

If you are just covering your butt, I don't need it. I will not accept that an email sent to 40 people covers all sins.

Think before you build a huge cc list.

James

by jdclyde

that would require thought and effort! We shall have none of that around here!

Ahhhhh, the path of least resistance.... B-)

by jdclyde

It is also a case of ego.

People either THINK they are more important than they really are, or they WISH they were more important.

I found out my ex-wife is still forwarding jokes on to my sister-in-law and a few of my Aunts. All are ones that know her for who and what she is, and don't return jokes her way.

I laughed when I saw the list she was sending to. Clearly, feeling very lonely living out in the country with no friends and only her new husband around for company..... She should get a dog....

by locrian_lyric

unfortunately, I was plagued by them because the company I worked for at the time was downsizing en masse. Everyone got the CC bug then.

you know "HEY, LOOK, don't downsize me, I'm busy!!"

by jdclyde

is if I am being told to do something I KNOW is either wrong or just won't work.

I want there to be NO misunderstandings on what my position is and why I have that position.

When history proves me right (again) and the project fails or we have to go back and change something to how I originally said it had to be done (again) it isn't MY ass on the line for having us do it wrong.

So, did you get downsized LL or did you leave?

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