Comments on: 4 e-mail blunders you wish they’d stop making

By: Katherine Q. Jones

Katherine Q. Jones — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:10:10 +0000

I agree wholeheartedly with most of your comments. My biggest pet peeve, like Sandra Kay, is using chatspeak or cell phone texting abbreviations in an email. Please use proper grammer, punctuation, and spelling. I do this in all my emails, even those to family and friends. I, too, abhorr the chain-mail emails that threaten dire consequences if I don’t forward or promise great rewards if I do. I haven’t won the lottery yet, but neither has the sky fallen in!

By: Judy

Judy — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:44:14 +0000

I also hate being told to ““send to 10 people in 10 minutes and you’ll have a wonderful life”. I have even received some that say that if I believe in God, I will forward to 15 people. How dare the sender expect me to base my beliefs on whether I spam all my contacts?
Also, if you send emails with heart-wrenching stories, check with snopes.com to see if the story is true.

By: Cyd

Cyd — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:29:32 +0000

I always put something in the subject line because if I get an email and I don’t know clearly who it is from I delete it if it doesn’t have the subject line filled in. Also I also hate those “send to 10 people in 10 minutes and you’ll have a wonderful life” emails. I enjoy reading the insperations that usually come with those statements but because I don’t forward I will be cursed for life and will end up in the nether world!

By: THE NEXT BIG THING

THE NEXT BIG THING — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:03:00 +0000

When it comes to putting in the subject line, i always leave it blank. the recipitant eventually has to open the email so it doesn’t matter if there is a description or not. however at some companies, it is mandatory that you put in a subject heading.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:50:31 +0000

Great article. I will definetly keep these keys in mind going forward!!

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:03:18 +0000

I appreciate the courtesy of a read receipt. Not all emails call for a response. I don’t need to know “when” an email was read, just “that” it was read. I don’t want to call the recipient or resend the email just because the recipient is too lazy to send a read receipt. As I said, the read receipt is a courtesy. Unfortunately, some people just think about themselves.

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:54:28 +0000

All of the above! I agree with Larry about always including a formal name/signature. I will delete mine when batting ideas back and forth. It only takes a second to “clean up”

Not picking and choosing to whom you send/reply (along with a lot of the other peeves) is just plain lazy.

A real peeve of mine is forarding emails that say: seen this to 10 of your friends and somthing great will happen to you … and if you don’t … etc. If the email is cute enough to forward, I clean this off along with the forward list.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:29:10 +0000

Unusually full “To” lines irk me. Apparently Some people still need to learn about Blind Copying (BCC) . There’s Nothing like receiving a “mass” email message with half the screen covered with email recipients’ names and addresses because the sender decided to send the message to everyone (and their brother and sister) and doesn’t mind (or is clueless) that they’re advertising that fact to everyone. It gets even better when that message gets forwarded without “cleaning”, like Crystal referred to earlier. Talk about screen clutter!….

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:29:54 +0000

I think it is unnecessary to use a read receipt and I ALWAYS say no I do not want to send a read receipt! Why do you need to know “when” I read the email. When you get my reply, you know I read and received it! If I don’t reply then call me or resend the message.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:32:26 +0000

I absolutely hate when people use a font that is hard to read. Stick with the standard Arial and Times New Roman. No on wants to struggle to read Bradley Hand in bright blue, bolded.