Comments on: Mobile Signature Makes One-Line Email Socially Acceptable

By: Mitch Wagner

Mitch Wagner — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:05:43 +0000

Paraphrasing something I heard at a journalism seminar a long time ago: Maybe the Internet needs fewer three-paragraph, formal, businesslike e-mails, and more 1-3 word e-mails, and long, chatty e-mails that go on for pages?

By: Mitch Wagner

Mitch Wagner — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:13:20 +0000

I don’t view short e-mails as rude at all – I send them all the time, haven’t gotten any complaints.

By: eaitken

eaitken — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:10:56 +0000

Have a look at 19:25 of this video for another approach to managing your email replies.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_pogue_says_simplicity_sells.html

You can be as rude as you like in the privacy of your own office, and no-one need know.

By: ultrafredde

ultrafredde — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:55:49 +0000

Well,

I consider it my freedom to decide on how I answer to emails – long or short.

I consider it as well my freedom to decide when I answer to an email. Email is by nature asynchronous, but people often think they can missuse it as IM.

It is just a matter of stating your position and habits.

Greetings!

By: gyffes

gyffes — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:43:00 +0000

I’ll give it clever props.

Make sure ALL the reply-to’s are accurate, however: I know people who try and pass off emails as “sent from work” (at 3am or whatnot) when the formation of the reply-to et al clearly indicates it was created outside the system.

Oops?

By: Curtis Hollibaugh

Curtis Hollibaugh — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:24:34 +0000

Clever.
Although, I personally have no problem appearing rude.

By: Gina Trapani

Gina Trapani — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:44:46 +0000

Make sure to set your email format to ‘text only’ to make it look more authentic, especially if you use Outlook or similar as a mail client.

Ohhh, great pointer, thanks.

By: four12

four12 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:34:13 +0000

Make sure to set your email format to ‘text only’ to make it look more authentic, especially if you use Outlook or similar as a mail client.

By: infmom

infmom — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:21:46 +0000

That would only work for people who don’t know you well enough to know you have no intention of buying an iPhone.

By: Matt Lynch

Matt Lynch — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:15:49 +0000

Love it!

Sent from my mobile phone.