During a recent job action I signed up to receive informational emails to keep me abreast of what was going on. As is the way of these things a double-agent got hold of the list with the result that both parties were sending propaganda back & forth. Some folks got rather vocal, belligerent even, and the emails went from informative to vindictive...and everyone always hit Reply All.
After this morning's latest round of arguments and name calling I'd finally had enough. I sent out an email of my own saying I didn't think name calling was helping either side, and that as professionals we needed to follow email etiquette, think about what we were sending, and whether it was really necessary to Reply All.
Then I requested I be taken off the list. Yes, via Reply All, as there was no other way to ubsubscribe.
Shortly afterwards I got a reply, as did everyone else on the List, because true to form my respondent felt compelled to hit Reply All when she wrote: "There's always the Delete button and the Spam filter!"
Good advice, I thought, as I deleted her from my address book and marked her email as "Spam" :P
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HA! She has a point, but so do you. Sometimes the Reply to All get a bit out of hand. It's funny at the beginning, if it's a joke, but then after a while it gets annoying.
Back at Westwood, during the EA years, we would occasional get these long rambling emails from one of the guys at the top talking about EA. Lots of somebody you've never heard of has been promoted to a job title you also never heard of, etc.
On one of them I replied, but only to my friend's at work who included a number of Westwood's own higher ups, with the title and body that only had the word "unsubscribe."
I have never seen people go into such a panic. They were afraid I was going to get fired from above or something. I let it go on for a little bit before I pointed out that I had only sent that to them.
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