{"id":497,"date":"2011-03-07T08:27:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T13:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=497"},"modified":"2011-03-07T09:03:36","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T14:03:36","slug":"email-etiquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/email-etiquette\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Etiquette"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: sans-serif;\">We&#8217;ve had hundreds of readers  \t\t\t\tsend pet peeves. Do you know what most of them are? They&#8217;re  \t\t\t\tabout email. Yes, about junky forwards, forwards with everyone  \t\t\t\telse&#8217;s address showing up in the cc: field, etc.<\/p>\n<p>We started thinking that perhaps  \t\t\t\tmany people really don&#8217;t know what good email etiquette is, so  \t\t\t\there are a few (there are more) rules of etiquette to guide you.  \t\t\t\tWe&#8217;re sure there are more; maybe you can think of some to add.<\/p>\n<p>EMAIL ETIQUETTE<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not send messages without a  \t\t\t\t\tsubject line<\/li>\n<li>Do not send a 2nd email to  \t\t\t\t\tcomplain &#8220;the first&#8221; was not answered quick enough; keep in  \t\t\t\t\tmind some people are not on their computers every day<\/li>\n<li>Do not click reply to an old  \t\t\t\t\tmessage and talk about something completely different from  \t\t\t\t\tthe subject line<\/li>\n<li>When responding to a message  \t\t\t\t\tleave the original message intact<\/li>\n<li>Do not include oversized  \t\t\t\t\tattachments in email; try to keep them below 500 kb, or send  \t\t\t\t\tan email to the recipient and warn them you have a large  \t\t\t\t\tfile ready to be sent<\/li>\n<li>Do not send exe files in email;  \t\t\t\t\tmany email services will block the email<\/li>\n<li>Never pass on warnings or other  \t\t\t\t\talerts by email that say &#8220;send to all your friends&#8221;. The  \t\t\t\t\tmajority of them are hoaxes.<\/li>\n<li>Do not use &#8220;Spam Challenge&#8221;  \t\t\t\t\temails and expect people to prove themselves, especially to  \t\t\t\t\ta company since most companies would not be able to do this.  \t\t\t\t\tAnd, spammers could send these same mails and fool people  \t\t\t\t\tinto &#8220;proving&#8221; they exist for nefarious reasons.<\/li>\n<li>Do not use &#8220;vacation  \t\t\t\t\tresponders&#8221;. Your close friends will know if you are gone;  \t\t\t\t\teveryone else can wait until you get home. If you really  \t\t\t\t\tneed to access email use a web mail account like Gmail you  \t\t\t\t\tcan access from anywhere<\/li>\n<li>Do not use or expect others to  \t\t\t\t\tallow &#8220;read receipts&#8221;. If someone wants you to know your  \t\t\t\t\tmail has been read, they will respond to you .<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t send mails with cc&#8217;s of  \t\t\t\t\tall your friends; be sure you use bcc.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t assume because you have a  \t\t\t\t\thigh-speed connection that everyone else does too. There are  \t\t\t\t\tstill many people using dial-up. Nothing is more irritating  \t\t\t\t\tto those folks than receiving an embedded video they can&#8217;t  \t\t\t\t\twatch, or a huge embedded image that takes them fifteen or  \t\t\t\t\ttwenty minutes to download.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had hundreds of readers send pet peeves. Do you know what most of them are? They&#8217;re about email. Yes, about junky forwards, forwards with everyone else&#8217;s address showing up in the cc: field, etc. We started thinking that perhaps many people really don&#8217;t know what good email etiquette is, so here are a few (there are more)\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/email-etiquette\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[252,285,282,283,281,14,284],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}