Five email tics I'd love for you to lose
Submitted by Merlin on November 7, 2005 - 7:05am.
For the love of God, people; can we get the word out on these? Format courtesy of my other site.
- The liberal use of the “VERY HIGH PRIORITY!!!“ flag
- The 18-line sig about all the Bad Things that will happen to me if I ever reveal the contents of your privileged, confidential (and unencrypted) message
- The unrequested press release (and the serial ignoring of the “Unsubscribe” I sent you for the previous seven press releases)
- The graphical background, font and table tags, and remaining 14k of HTML cruft associated with every. single. message. you’ve ever sent
- The including of my – plus 98 other strangers’ – personal email addresses in the “
To:” line of your friendly reminder about Tyler’s birthday party
Friend: I love you, but you must evolve.
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Amen. Not quite a tic, but...
Amen.
Not quite a tic, but the tendency among press officers to add you to their various high-traffic mailing lists after you’ve contacted them for a single piece of information about someone they represent. So far this morning I have received urgent news of a gallery opening in Tel Aviv, several upcoming gigs in New York and what, if my schoolboy French isn’t failing me, appears to be an ‘art’ sex show in Paris. All fabulous, I’m sure, but since I live and work in Scotland, less than useful.
Jeroen - I have a feeling you might just have sparked a little trend with that disclaimer of yours ;-)