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ARTICLE · 18 OCTOBER 2011

Read It, Ignore It, Delete It, Or Scoff At It, But Don't Reply To All

Ok, does it get much more annoying? You’re finally focusing on your work and having a very productive Monday morning so far. Then you get that familiar "bing" – the 82nd e-mail of the morning already from 1 of 25 addressees on a prior e-mail, who responds "I agree" or "LOL!" or "Yes, Jon, let’s set that up" (and, oh by the way, you’re not Jon).

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Ok, does it get much more annoying? You're finally focusing on your work and having a very productive Monday morning so far. Then you get that familiar "bing" – the 82nd e-mail of the morning already from 1 of 25 addressees on a prior e-mail, who responds "I agree" or "LOL!" or "Yes, Jon, let's set that up" (and, oh by the way, you're not Jon).

Then, everyone else on the e-mail uses Reply to All to ask everyone else to quit using Reply to All, or "Please take me off this e-mail string." And then, people use Reply to All to apologize to everyone for using Reply to All. And you find yourself reading and deleting for over an hour, and longing for the days when faxes were the newest "nano-second" technology.

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