Email sins – how many do you commit?

September 6, 2008 By 1 Comment

Michael Wade in his blog, Execupundit.com, lists his nominations for the top ten biggest email sins.

Here’s his top five:

  1. Copying people on e-mails that are of remote or no interest to them.
  2. Keeping the same subject line even though the actual message has significantly changed.
  3. Promising to share part of the fortune that you inherited in the Ivory Coast.
  4. Replying to All when you meant to hit Reply.
  5. Not checking spelling.

Read his post for the other five.

I would add to the list – ever using BCC  — if you don’t want the person you’re writing to know you’re copying someone else – don’t do it.

Via WebWorkerDaily

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  • http://blog.jonwatson.ca Jon

    Hi Dan!

    With respect to BCC’ing – I agree. I use BCC on almost every email I send, but I am BCC’ing to me. That gives me the ‘GMail Conversation Thread’ effect in Thunderbird without violating your BCC rule.

    Actually, now that I think of it, my wife and I regularly BCC each other on things of mutual importance like emails to our suppliers regarding the running of our B&B and the like.

    But those are rather innocuous BCCs which – I think – only violate the letter of your rule and not its intent.

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