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The Reply All Button Must Die
- cstejerean 19y agoI'm not sure if I agree with the article. More often than not an email is a way to communicate with a group of people so one must keep using reply all. I've had more problems with forgetting to CC someone or accidentally hitting reply instead of reply all than with sending am email to the whole team by accident. Perhaps reply should always reply all, and the list of recipients should be more proeminent. Perhaps
- ivankirigin 19y agoBCC is a solution from the originating end. Not hiring stupid people is a solution from the reply-all end.
- cdr 19y agoHe seems to have a problem more with "Great job!" e-mails rather than Reply All. Pretty vapid piece.
- timr 19y agoI can hear it now: "Great article! I'm forwarding it to everyone in the office!"
- ardit33 19y agoThis is stupid. Please guys don't post things like that. While the "reply all" button gets abused sometimes, it is actually pretty useful.
- mattculbreth 19y agoThis guy doesn't even like Twitter, come on.
- edw519 19y agoI will be bringing cookies to the potluck on Tuesday. If this message reached you in error, just delete it.
- kmt 19y agoBS. I reply to all most of the time, because usually there was a good reason why people were on the distribution list. Also I find it quite annoying if I put someone on the list and a responder omits them. Happens mostly with people who lack enough email experience or etiquette or are just not smart enough or careful enough to think what they are doing and the author of the article seems to be among those.
- pg 19y agoAs so often, the solution is not to get rid of Reply All but to log and follow up on misuses of it.
- kajecounterhack 19y agoActually, Gmail's reply button is placed physically before its reply to all button, and I usually find myself hitting that instead of reply to all. Of course, it all comes down to how retarded your friends are, because they might hit it just to send everyone a message that you may or may not want to read. Personally I think it isnt about removing the button, just getting less-retarded friends.
- jorgeortiz85 19y agoOne Reply: GMail's conversation view (why isn't this standard with every e-mail client?)
- izak30 19y agoSeems to me to be another question of "should we let stupid users do stupid things" and you can't really help that, no matter how many buttons you add or take away. The reply to all button is actually quite useful.