Are Email Forwards Worth Ending a Friendship?
What is a “friend”? I think that term has been diluted due to social media. A “friend” is not someone who clicks a button and…
What is a “friend”? I think that term has been diluted due to social media. A “friend” is not someone who clicks a button and…
Occasionally, I get to do interviews about email etiquette topics. The questions I get asked are generally the same. Most are about the issues that…
Forwarding emails is one of the topics I get contacted about the most. And one which also causes hurt feelings and misunderstandings more than other…
Yes. Yes, it is! Whoever sent that forwarded email should have redacted/removed all their contact’s email addresses from the forward. You never expose contacts’ email…
Forwarding of any content without the original author/creator/emailer/IMer’s explicit permission is not proper, nor is it legal.
No matter how nice, how kind, how thoughtful they may be in asking someone to stop forwarding these “forward to everyone you know” emails, the forwarder will either have hurt feelings or get downright belligerent in the belief that they can do what they want.
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