I truly don’t understand why “Reply All” is so maligned. In my career, 99% of the time where replying was necessary, “Reply All” was the correct option to ensure all others on the chain remained informed. In fact, it was worse when others on the chain did NOT use “Reply All” either leaving me completely off or breaking the chain for others that needed to remain informed.
Having worked in two different global corporations with email lists numbering in the thousands of members, well…
Let’s say it did provide occasional comic relief as various vice presidents would reply to the reply-alls in an attempt to get the cascade of (often intentionally) idiotic replies to stop.
Oh god. It starts with the single word replies “Unsubscribe.” And I cann’t tell if those people are being trolls or just incredibly stupid. Then someone else will attempt to correct them about how email etiquette works (and I can’t tell if that person is being sarcastic or just stupid.)
But I’ve seen those chains gone on for like 50 replies over an afternoon. So much facepalm.
I truly don’t understand why “Reply All” is so maligned. In my career, 99% of the time where replying was necessary, “Reply All” was the correct option to ensure all others on the chain remained informed. In fact, it was worse when others on the chain did NOT use “Reply All” either leaving me completely off or breaking the chain for others that needed to remain informed.
Having worked in two different global corporations with email lists numbering in the thousands of members, well…
Let’s say it did provide occasional comic relief as various vice presidents would reply to the reply-alls in an attempt to get the cascade of (often intentionally) idiotic replies to stop.
Good times.
Oh god. It starts with the single word replies “Unsubscribe.” And I cann’t tell if those people are being trolls or just incredibly stupid. Then someone else will attempt to correct them about how email etiquette works (and I can’t tell if that person is being sarcastic or just stupid.) But I’ve seen those chains gone on for like 50 replies over an afternoon. So much facepalm.
If you send an email that says “Do not reply all” to 200,000 people, its your own damn fault