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Re: email advice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Weigl, Theresa (weiglta@oneonta.ed)
Sat Apr 9 14:52:31 2011
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Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 14:52:09 -0400
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From: "Weigl, Theresa (weiglta@oneonta.edu)" <weiglta@oneonta.edu>
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I on the other hand have asked people to take me off their lists if I get lots of that type of mail from them...one or two I would delete, but if it's a lot, it's another story. "I'm glad you're thinking of me, but....It's my work email address and shouldn't be used for those types of email." You could even say you might get in "trouble" for it, if that makes it easier. Anyone who knows me, knows I work in technology - no one has been offended yet and they've been okay about removing me from those types of emails. Teri
Teri Weigl
Supervisor
Information Technology Help Desk
Milne Technology Center, B262
Phone: (607)436-3079
Fax: 607-436-3677
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language."
~ Martin Buber
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From: Resnet Forum [RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Randall K. Kouns [kounsra@earlham.edu]
Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 8:54 AM
To: RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: email advice
short of putting a generic disclaimer in your signature block or sending every chain email back to the sender there is not much you can do... can't filter...cause the titles always change.... (unless your filter on FWD:)
we all get them, we all delete them....fact of life for an email user!!
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From: "Drago N. Elboni" <drago.n.elboni@gmail.com>
To: RESNET-L@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Sent: Friday, April 8, 2011 9:08:34 PM
Subject: email advice
I'm having a problem receiving a lot of stupid email forwards. Especially with the baby boomers. I would appreciate any suggestions the listserv has to offer, because this problem has become particuarly frustrating for an email power user such as myself.
Certain people like to send me email. Great! I'm glad you're thinking of me. But I really, really don't like getting chain mail/spam.
It's one thing when it's genuinely funny. One of my cousins sends me stuff fairly often, but I actually laugh at it. So it's OK; we have similar senses of humor and we will email back and forth entertaining comments about the funny. So she knows that I'm cool with her highly amusing forwards.
My grandmother, on the other hand.... Well, we've already had one discussion about how getting religious-toned pro-American military everything was a bit offensive as a humanist, pacifist and atheist. And she took it quite well, and I haven't gotten anything from her in that vein lately. But I still get stuff from her and other older family members. And it's so OBNOXIOUS.
I think the biggest issue that we are using email for different things. I am an email power user, they are not. They are using it as an occasional communication tool that is capable of holding files, pictures, words, and ideas. I, on the other hand, am an email power user. I use my work email to communicate with hundreds of people on a daily basis. I use my personal email to stay abreast of community issues, what's going on in Facebook, what my friends are up to, to manage choir business and to inform my friends and family as to what's going on in my life. Yes, amusing and funny things make their way into both my work and personal email, but for me, email is not an optional thing that I log into occasionally. I am in my email inboxes at least 10 hours a day. I have three active email accounts, as well as specialized email aliases that forward to my personal and work accounts, the 20+ email lists that I'm on, or the separate email accounts that forward to my main accounts (s!
uch as ResNet and choir).
On an average day, I read about 200 emails. I send at least 40, if not more. A lot of them are quick responses, that take seconds to compose and send. But I am an email power user: I use the keyboard fairly exclusively once I start working in Apple Mail, and I type SUPER DUPER FAST. Email is not some fluffy thing for me. It is an integral part of my job and responsibilities, and when someone sends me crap about The World's Biggest Hug or "RE: Love SPell - Pass it ON OR ELSE!!1!" it makes me upset. Because they've now stolen 5 seconds of my time. It's my time, dammit. It doesn't matter that it was seconds. What matters is that people are not cognizant of me and my needs. And that as family and friends, I expect more of them.
So what can I do about receiving all these stupid emails? Should I email people back and let them know to stop sending them, or should I just block them?
I hope someone can offer some advice, surely I'm not the only one dealing with this.
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Drago N. Elboni
Service Desk Manager at National Central University
http://servicedesk.cc.ncu.edu.tw/
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