Use With Extreme Caution

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I implore you if you feel the need to use the Reply to All button when responding to e-mail,  please do so with extreme caution.  Before clicking Reply to All LOOK at the distribution list and ask yourself if all those people need to see your response.

Remember:

If you "Reply to All" telling people to "Stop replying to all" you are part of the problem
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Here is one more reminder on the evils of Reply to All.

Rules for using “Reply to All”

2 Responses to Use With Extreme Caution
  1. jake
    September 19, 2011 | 12:30 pm

    technically true, but sometimes the blunt hammer approach is warranted (IMHO)

  2. Stephan H. Wissel
    September 19, 2011 | 12:50 pm

    Well in my favorite monastery there’s a sign:
    “Don’t speak – unless it improves on silence”