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The Grinch Who Steals My Email Subject


Begin Rant: This is me being a grumpy old man, I suppose. Of the 100 or so daily emails that fill my Inbox, most include a subject line that includes words that are relative to the content of the email. Oddly enough (duh), that gives me some indication of what I am about to read...at least most of the time. Then, there are time like today, when an email arrives with a RE: Some-Previous-Email-Subject with content that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the body text of the email. I know that it is easy to sort through one's inbox of email and find a previously created message, hit the Reply button, and display my email address comfortably resting in the To: field. But is it such an ordeal to highlight the old, unrelated subject and type in something that makes sense to the soon-to-be-receiver?? Isn't this some sort of email etiquette breach?...or at least grounds for a sarcastic Sniglet?
End Rant
Deep breath. *Sigh*


Posted by Paul Chenoweth on December 13, 2007 10:28 AM |

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I'm right there with you, Paul. Anyone can buy a computer and be clueless about the consideration that's essential to keeping the medium in working order.

It's been my experience that it really IS that hard to change the subject line for some folks. Snipping posts? What's that?

My favorite--Why should I buy antivirus software? I don't use my computer that much.

Posted by: Kay Brooks | December 13, 2007 12:13 PM

Kay,
At least I've not had anyone recently ask me to burn the Internet onto a CD for them. Perhaps the truly 'clueless' are evolving into a new species.

Posted by: Paul | December 13, 2007 04:34 PM

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