How To Inform About Email Etiquette?

How do you politely inform your friends who do not practice proper Email Etiquette that they need to bone up on the subject?

That’s a tough one… In my years of experience no matter how polite or “nice” you are in trying to explain the nuances of proper e-mail etiquette, many get defensive, have hurt feelings and some get downright mad! How dare you tell them what to do!?

The fact remains that all of us — each and every one of us — was thrown into this technology without any formal training. To think you “know it all” or have nothing more to learn is naive at best. Heck, I still learn something new each and every day and I’ve been online before most knew what online was!

I get e-mailed daily asking for a “nice way” to tell someone to not do this or that. What I then advise is to find the appropriate area on my site or one of my Email Etiquette articles that covers the issues you are concerned about.

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