E-mail Etiquette
About a year ago, a friend forwarded me one of those stupid chain e-mails that threatens me with death by a million Spider Monkey bites, or what have you. He might as well have forwarded to about 90 percent of northern Virginia, because my e-mail address has been obtained by the walking disaster that is Tracee. If you don’t know her, you can now breathe a sigh of releif.
Traycee is notorious for sending chain mail, advertisements for random parties, opinions on politics, and just about anything she finds that she thinks somebody (anybody?) might take an interest in, which would be fine and easy to ignore… if it were only her that sent them. I’ve attempted to talk her into using the “BCC” line when sending her mass communications, but my efforts have been to no avail.
Today, I log in to my Yahoo! account to find 50 messages from her and other people originally included in the “To:” line of her original e-mail. 50 messages!!
Naturally, I reply to all and ask that I please be removed from their responses because, frankly, I don’t even know who they are. Immediately following, I get a reply from another stranger in her address book saying “please remove me as well”. Idiots.
That’s when I would reply back with something like, “LQQK @ diz babe deer, itz so cute!!11!!!!!1!!” and then the link would go to some awfully hardcore pornographic pictures. You know, something with three guys and no chicks. No wait, embed it in the email so when they open it, they have to look at it. Maybe then, she’d get the message. This works especially well it’s replied back to the original email sent and CC’ed to everyone. Bonus points for sending it to work addresses. Well, no bonus points, work addresses are mandatory. That’ll get some responses. But, given the retardism that is the email spam friend, it’ll take, at minimum, three separated coincidences for her to get the point.
My old roommate actually got fired for improper use of work emails.