Help For The E-Mail Etiquette Challenged
There are a lot of people out there who are sending our e-mail after e-mail and offending everyone on their way, completely oblivious to what they are doing. We all experience them regularly. these are the people who WRITE IN ALL CAPS, > > > > > forward e-mails that have been forwarded several times previously, use REPLY ALL to respond to distribution lists, and attach 50 MB files that clock up our Internet connections.
Here is a great cheat sheet that you can print out and leave on their desk to that they can get the e-mail act together.
Update: I originally had the pdf embedded in the post but too many people were having problems with it (see comments below). It is now just a simple link. That will teach me to try and get fancy. Sorry about the trouble. -Tim
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6 Responses to “Help For The E-Mail Etiquette Challenged”
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Bob Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 9:06 amDon’t know if its just me, but I can’t view your embedded doc/pdf.
Bob
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fi-fi Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 9:17 amStrange way to embed pdf indeed.
After giving noscript permission to load stuff from external url, Firefox is asking for install a plugin.. no thanks.
I’ll just wget it instead.http://www.barcharts.com/system/downloads/free/Email%20Etiquette%20%28QT%29.pdf
Oh and using spaces and parenthesis in filenames/paths is not nice.
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Tim Fehlman Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 9:37 am@Bob & fi-fi,
Thanks for the heads up. I have removed the embedded pdf and just put the link in. Sorry for the trouble.
@fi-fi,
I agree that spaced and parenthesis are not a nice thing to use in URLs. Kind of ironic that the original authors committed this faux pas on a document about e-mail etiquette!
Tim
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Bob Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 2:58 pmThanks Tim…. Now I can easily download the PDF, but with my Foxit or PDF-Xchange viwers, it says the PDF is corrupt….
But maybe its on my side.
Thanks
Bob
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Jake Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 4:21 pmLinky no worky for me in Firefox or MSIE. Gives me a 404 in MSIE or “Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)” in Firefox. Really needed to forward this on to some folks who just don’t get it

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Bob Says:
May 12th, 2008 at 8:01 pmThanks Tim, now its working and it was well worth the wait.
Bob

