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I try not to respond to emails with one liners. If it deserves a response, it deserves a complete thought. I hate sending something to someone and getting a "th

by moftz 8y ago

I try not to respond to emails with one liners. If it deserves a response, it deserves a complete thought. I hate sending something to someone and getting a "thanks" reply back. I get that you appreciated what I sent you but if your reply isn't going to affect anything, don't respond. Shoot me an IM if you really need to give me a one liner.

CPLX 8y ago
You should try it: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/i-tried-emailing-like-your-boss https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/i-tried...
unsignedint 8y ago
I try to not do this either myself, but at the same time, I wish people do this a little more often. Some people are just bad at replying things, and even an one liner would save me from wondering and/or needs for follow up of "did you receive my message?"
reaperducer 8y ago
I try not to respond to emails with one liners. I have a co-worker who does this. She sends me data files with "Please review." So I've started responding with things like, "It had a good beat, but I couldn't dance to it. Three stars." Or, "Excellent datas!!eleven! Fast shipping! Goog eBayer, would buy again!" She's still sending me the one-liners, but at least I'm having fun.
- ben509 8y ago
  Just run file against them and send the results back.
51lver 8y ago
In many cases a one line reply is simply an acknowledgement of receipt.
qwertay 8y ago
>I get that you appreciated what I sent you but if your reply isn't going to affect anything, don't respond. I often reply to non actionable emails/IMs with a thumbs up emoji indicating that I have read the message and have nothing to add. This means the other side know they don't have to try to contact me again because I have seen it.
ben509 8y ago
> Shoot me an IM if you really need to give me a one liner. You say that, but... 14:51 help 14:51 I wanted to merge dev into master 14:52 and got message that dev is not up to date or something with the base branch 14:53 so I clicked on update branch, but than I saw in circleci that it attempts to merge master int develop!? 14:53 so I stopped it So my issue with IM is you get pinged every 30 seconds while you watch people write their emails in real time.

by moftz 8y ago

CPLX 8y ago

You should try it: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/i-tried-emailing-like-your-boss https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/i-tried...

unsignedint 8y ago

I try to not do this either myself, but at the same time, I wish people do this a little more often. Some people are just bad at replying things, and even an one liner would save me from wondering and/or needs for follow up of "did you receive my message?"

reaperducer 8y ago

I try not to respond to emails with one liners. I have a co-worker who does this. She sends me data files with "Please review." So I've started responding with things like, "It had a good beat, but I couldn't dance to it. Three stars." Or, "Excellent datas!!eleven! Fast shipping! Goog eBayer, would buy again!" She's still sending me the one-liners, but at least I'm having fun.

ben509 8y ago
Just run file against them and send the results back.

51lver 8y ago

In many cases a one line reply is simply an acknowledgement of receipt.

qwertay 8y ago

>I get that you appreciated what I sent you but if your reply isn't going to affect anything, don't respond. I often reply to non actionable emails/IMs with a thumbs up emoji indicating that I have read the message and have nothing to add. This means the other side know they don't have to try to contact me again because I have seen it.

ben509 8y ago

> Shoot me an IM if you really need to give me a one liner. You say that, but... 14:51 help 14:51 I wanted to merge dev into master 14:52 and got message that dev is not up to date or something with the base branch 14:53 so I clicked on update branch, but than I saw in circleci that it attempts to merge master int develop!? 14:53 so I stopped it So my issue with IM is you get pinged every 30 seconds while you watch people write their emails in real time.