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Now: how do you politely tell people to follow these guidelines?
by masnick 15y ago
Now: how do you politely tell people to follow these guidelines?
- mattmight 15y agoI used to use the academic style with academics, and the clunky style with everyone else. Now, I just use the academic style with everyone. And, slowly, it starts to catch on. In reality, I think we'll have to teach proper email composition in grade school before it becomes standard.
- _ques 15y agoCodify these guidelines into a "Standard". Give it a name, say "Email Efficiency Specification". In your automated footer, add: "This email was composed to comply with the Email Efficiency Specification: http://eespec.org http://eespec.org Once it gets some traction, have profs at b-schools / PHBs at corps mandate it. To sell the idea, call it the 7th sigma or something.
- rwmj 15y agoThere is this old RFC (from 1995): http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html It doesn't seem to have had much effect, sadly.
- limmeau 15y agoMy favourite anti-TOFU (German for Text Oben Fullquote Unten, text above, fullquote below) educational signature is: Because it sounds backwards. > Why should I not use the style? >> Text oben, Fullquote unten. >>> What is TOFU? But educational email signatures only go so far. I personally consider the struggle against TOFU lost.