Seth’s Email Checklist

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  W^L+ | June 15th, 2008 @ 3:11 pm | Reply

  Actually, if someone calls me, they are interrupting something that I consider important. Calling me on the phone without sent e-mail first is probably going to get a hostile reception.

  That goes double for one of those “I saw your resume on Monster” callers that never seem to have read what they claim to have seen.

  I heartily agree with most of the list.
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  Ryan | June 15th, 2008 @ 11:55 pm | Reply

  Thanks for the link.

  I will now spam a bunch of people who haven’t followed these rules when sending emails to me in the past … or is that breaking the checklist rules?

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  johnbillion | June 16th, 2008 @ 4:39 am | Reply

  If you need to go down a list of thirty-six bullet points before sending your next email, maybe you should instead learn some basic social and communication skills first.
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  Carson | June 16th, 2008 @ 5:31 am | Reply

  Excellent guidance! But I would add: If your message is written in all small letters with no punctuation, don’t send it. This irritates anyone who has successfully completed high school.
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  Jacob from Group Writing Projects | June 16th, 2008 @ 11:25 am | Reply

  Great find. Normally I would say that a lot of the points are intuitive but reality has shown otherwise far too often.
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  Spamboy | June 17th, 2008 @ 7:14 am | Reply

  Coincidentally, NPR’s been talking this week about email from a number of perspectives. Here’s today’s entry about “email bankruptcy”: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91366853
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  Jeremy | June 17th, 2008 @ 11:30 pm | Reply

  Heartily agree with @johnbillion above. These are all just common sense things. If you can’t do that automatically, you shouldn’t be sending email at all.
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  john.jones.name | June 18th, 2008 @ 2:08 pm | Reply

  Its a funny list and these things remind some of us what they should be doing, much like letter writing there is a art to email and not everyone can follow the conventions… my personal gripe is with people who’s signature does not include the dash and carriage return so i can not remove it from being quoted in my reply to them…

  regards

  John Jones
  http://www.johnjones.me.uk