Why waste time schooling clueless email senders one by one when you can build a web site to do it for you? A recent trend among email-overloaded web developers who don’t want to explain the basics of email etiquette to frequent senders is to set up a web page that does it instead—then reply to senders with a link to the page, or just include it in their signature. Merlin Mann’s Thanks, No turns down unwanted email; Mike Davidson’s five sentences explains why his email messages are so short; and now Brett Kelly’s BCC, please asks that bulk senders use the BCC field to hide his address from everyone else on a big list. The question is: would you ever actually use any of these explainer pages?
Ever send or receive one of these explainer pages? Did it work? Tell us about your experience in the comments.
Judith
May 22, 2008 at 6:15 AM
Thanks for the post and listing some sites I wasn’t aware of — what a hoot! I am definitely going to check them out!
I get a ton of visitors from down under at my site:
http://www.NetManners.com
Ad-free and everything you’d ever want to know about e-mail etiquette. Tips, Blog, quiz, articles and free services too!
HTH! ;-)
At your service,
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Catherine
July 29, 2008 at 5:57 AM
When you send an email to someone or even to several… I have one person that pays NO attention to the origination of the email and sends it all back to me. So if I a total of 10 emails to a select group of 15 people…I will get all 10 of those emails BACK in attachments!!! Is there a polite way to say HELLO…pay attention?
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