netiquette

Expedience

A few days ago, I received an unsolicited group email from an acquaintance (again) that displayed all several dozen recipients’ addresses in the header’s “TO” field (again). I’d asked to be removed from distribution previously, so this time I tried a different approach, pointing out the advantages of placing group email addresses in the “BCC” field … contact information kept confidential, […]

Talk to the hand

LinkedIn columnist Adam Grant’s 05.15.14 list of things not to do when communicating with strangers via email boils down to this: Don’t be pushy. Which would be very civilized advice if parts of the long-form version of it didn’t sound so much like a Ray-Ban-wearing demimonde saying “talk to the hand.” The fact that Grant […]

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