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Reply All

I'm getting tired of Reply All. Think about this example for a minute. Suppose I send email to a list of 20 people or so telling them to let me know if they want me to send them something. Do you really think that sending a reply to the whole list of people is a good idea? None of them can send it to you so why do they care that you want it? What good does it do? Why not just send the reply to me? Now I know that sometimes a mailing list sets itself as the return address. But really how much work does it take to change the send to address?
There is a time for Reply All and a time to reply to an individual. Just think how much time and bandwidth we'd save if people gave a little thought before they replied?

posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:09 AM by AlfredTwo

# @ Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:28 AM

sometimes that 'reply all' feature can be really irritating. same thing when you get few people sending correspondences to each other in a mailing group where most of the people in the group are not concerned. everytime that happens i email those individuals concerned about "netiquette" and all those squeaky-clean-boyscoutish- but-really-necessary stuff.

geraldson

# @ Wednesday, June 16, 2004 2:52 AM

I agree it can get annoying, but it's useful in moderation. Anyway, there's a fairly simple solution: if there isn't a need for cross-talk between receivers and there's no reason why the receivers need to know who received it, simply bcc everyone.

Porphyre

# @ Wednesday, June 16, 2004 5:12 AM

E-mail Etiquette 101... definitely a needed course.

Howard


 
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