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Another thing: don't cc everyone that could possibly want to know about your email's existence. That annoys me to no end.

by j_baker 17y ago

Imprecate 17y ago
In a work setting I think it's fine as long as there's some level of interest. Obviously it's a balancing act, but I like to keep my direct manager and peers working on the same component informed about test plans, etc. One other issue with CCing everyone is that you always end up with someone throwing their two cents in about minor issues when they aren't even invested in the project.
byrneseyeview 17y ago
That's why you can have more than one email in the 'To' field: To: You want to read this. CC: You may want to refer to this.
dkarl 17y ago
Good luck with that. People at my company regularly send out meeting invites to 3-4x as many people as are actually desired at the meeting. As with email ccs, It's a CYA thing, to prevent other people from claiming ignorance when the shit hits the fan later.
nagrom 17y ago
The email thing that infuriates me is when people send something to a mailing list that I am on, that they think that I should read and copy the mail to me as well. At work, we have people sending the same mail to three mailing lists and then I receive a fourth copy too. Aarrggh! For a tool that has been around for the last 30-odd years, I am amazed that people are as bad at email as they are. And I'm not talking here about secretaries, or non-technical staff. I'm talking about scientists in a research institute!
- tome 17y ago
  I blame the mail clients. Most don't have a "reply to list" feature, so respondents end up "group reply"ing in order to make sure the mailing list features in the list of To: addresses. It's lazy, and I hate it, but it gets the job done for them.
  - tokenadult 17y ago
    The clients have degraded because many list managers are inconsistent with how headers on list messages are set. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html There isn't any way, for a given client, to ensure consistent behavior when replying to all lists, and for the lists there isn't any reasonable expectation that all users will have the same client behavior. Things are a mess all around now.
    - tome 17y ago
      Mutt lets you define mailing lists, so if you press list reply (Ctrl-l by default) it will know whether to reply to the address the message was sent to.

Another thing: don't cc everyone that could possibly want to know about your email's existence. That annoys me to no end.

by j_baker 17y ago

Another thing: don't cc everyone that could possibly want to know about your email's existence. That annoys me to no end.

Imprecate 17y ago

In a work setting I think it's fine as long as there's some level of interest. Obviously it's a balancing act, but I like to keep my direct manager and peers working on the same component informed about test plans, etc. One other issue with CCing everyone is that you always end up with someone throwing their two cents in about minor issues when they aren't even invested in the project.

byrneseyeview 17y ago

That's why you can have more than one email in the 'To' field: To: You want to read this. CC: You may want to refer to this.

dkarl 17y ago

Good luck with that. People at my company regularly send out meeting invites to 3-4x as many people as are actually desired at the meeting. As with email ccs, It's a CYA thing, to prevent other people from claiming ignorance when the shit hits the fan later.

nagrom 17y ago

The email thing that infuriates me is when people send something to a mailing list that I am on, that they think that I should read and copy the mail to me as well. At work, we have people sending the same mail to three mailing lists and then I receive a fourth copy too. Aarrggh! For a tool that has been around for the last 30-odd years, I am amazed that people are as bad at email as they are. And I'm not talking here about secretaries, or non-technical staff. I'm talking about scientists in a research institute!

tome 17y ago
I blame the mail clients. Most don't have a "reply to list" feature, so respondents end up "group reply"ing in order to make sure the mailing list features in the list of To: addresses. It's lazy, and I hate it, but it gets the job done for them.
- tokenadult 17y ago
  The clients have degraded because many list managers are inconsistent with how headers on list messages are set. http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html There isn't any way, for a given client, to ensure consistent behavior when replying to all lists, and for the lists there isn't any reasonable expectation that all users will have the same client behavior. Things are a mess all around now.
  - tome 17y ago
    Mutt lets you define mailing lists, so if you press list reply (Ctrl-l by default) it will know whether to reply to the address the message was sent to.