A [email protected] visitor asked: Is it against e-mail etiquette rules to copy and paste a section of a IM (Instant Message) conversation you have with a friend we'll call A to your best friend B? Is this not the same, or at least very similar to explaining the scenario to B? My first reaction is … [Read more...]
How Do I Ask Them to Stop Forwarding All Those Silly Emails?
Forwarding e-mail is a source of contention. I receive inquiries from mothers, daughters, fathers and sons, friends and associates about how to "nicely" ask someone they know, like or love (possibly you) to please stop forwarding e-mails they didn't ask for or are not interested in. … [Read more...]
Irresponsible Fake News Forwarders
Do you know an irresponsible forwarder or two, or three or five? Those numbers seem to be increasing aren't they? It's becoming second nature to some. Get an e-mail that has the tone or POV you agree with and off it goes to "all your friends." Regardless if it is true or based in any fact or … [Read more...]
E-mail Forwards Worth Ending a Friendship?
What is a "friend"? A site visitor was curious and pondered: Here is the situation with a "friend" of mine... We sent each other Christmas cards, no phone calls or visits. My friend recently sent me an e-mail on to my private e-addy saying she thought of me often, wondered how I was doing, and … [Read more...]
Are You a Chronic “MeMailer”?
MeMail is all about the sender. Their views, their photos, their discretion, their personality. The term MeMail makes note of the narcissism inherent in our e-mail activities. We are just thinking of "Me" and what we want to do at that moment in time. I don't … [Read more...]
Forwarding of Personal E-mails
A site visitor writes: How do you recommend I handle a good friend who forwards my personal emails to her about my life to her friend at work without asking me. Am I in the wrong to be upset? Is this good friendship practice or am I being too critical? Believe me, you are not wrong or being too … [Read more...]
Is Cc: Enough to Forward to Others?
What is proper E-mail Etiquette when forwarding personal e-mails sent to you to a third party? By Cc:ing the Sender when you forward their e-mail make it "O.K."? No, it does not! That e-mail was sent to you for your eyes only! Whether it be a business or personal e-mail common courtesy would … [Read more...]
NSFW = Not Safe For Work?
I was interviewed recently on my view in regard to the use of the acronym NSFW. Apparently some felt that an acronym noting "Not Safe For Work", is necessary when sending e-mail to those they knew were at work to warn them that the content or links contained within were of a questionable nature and … [Read more...]