Many of the concepts that apply to email apply to Instant Messaging (Desktop, Laptop, PDA, Blackberry, Pocket PC) and visa-versa. The key is courtesy and clarity in your communications. You need to use Instant Messaging (IM) or Text Messaging properly with consideration for the person on the other side.

Unfortunately, “not working” doesn’t’ give me or your provider much to go on to figure out what is going on.

The topic of unwanted forwarded emails is one which I get contacted about almost daily. “Please advise a nice way of asking them to stop forwarding me all those [jokes, political commentary, feel good] emails.”

For the most part, I don’t open emails where the Subject: field is blank unless I immediately recognize the Sender. Most non-subjected emails are spam. Not having a Subject: therefore makes you look spammy and generally will have your email end up in my Junk or Trash folder when it is misidentified as spam.

The fact you are reading my Blog shows you care about E-mail Etiquette and Netiquette and have an interest in “communicating with knowledge, understanding and courtesy.” That’s my tagline —…