I’m constantly staggered at the number of people that don’t use email (or use it very badly). Mostly at church….good grief at work when our email server goes down everybody just start milling around with this lost expression on their face because they have no clue how to do their job anymore.
But ya know, I can understand it a little. Maybe you can’t afford a computer? Maybe you’re afraid of technology? Email is not hard though and I’m sure that you can get someone’s soon-to-be-discarded old computer for $0-$40. Presumably you have a phone? And I’m betting that you have a neighbor, friend, nephew that’s just “really good with computers” that can get you going.
OK, those of you that do have email, let me poke at you a bit here…..
- Please read your email at least once a day. Do you only go check your physical mail box once a week?
- Please learn what CC and BCC means and please learn the difference between Reply and Reply-To-All
- Stop sending me chain emails…nobody likes getting them in the real mail, why would I want them in my email?
- Please learn some basic typography….don’t use ALL CAPS because it’s yelling. Please use the “rich text” features of your email and use bold and italics to emphasis things. And please break up your text into small paragraphs.
- Please use the spell checker – it’s your friend.
- Keep it short and to the point.
Okay, I feel better now.
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