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how to use email (Score:2)
It got me thinking of my own pet peeves in the email department. Number one on my list is attachments of word documents which contain only text... which could have been placed in the body of the message.
I get a handfull of these every week where I work. It bugs me.
The only thing worse is that a few weeks back I received an email with an attached word document, a single sentance of content in the body of the email message, followed by this sentance of non-content in the body:
> Ingore the attached Word document.
WTF!?
-matt
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Re:how to use email (Score:1)
Along similar lines, it really raises my hackles when there's 4-5 mails to the local Linux users' group list that are one or two lines with Jepoardy quoted contents of all of the previous messages.
T LEARN TO FRELLING CUT DOWN IRRELEVANT DETAILS
Ahem. Sorry.
Re:how to use email (Score:2)
Making matters worse is that folks don't get the point of shared volumes. Instead of putting a 10MB Access database on "the public drive", they'll email it to three folks, then engage in a conversation via email with 10MB attachments being duplicated for each recipient each time someone sends
Re:how to use email (Score:2)
Re:how to use email (Score:2)
Sure is fun to bitch sometimes
Getting off the subject of email, I once had someone send me some copy for a web page in a word document (which is perfectly acc