I don’t intend to change the world’s email etiquette by this post, but perhaps there are a few of my readers who might learn something.<\/p>\n
1. Always include a subject on your email. This makes it easier for the reader to identify the message.<\/p>\n
2. Always “sign” your name near the end of your email (this is one way of determining if a message is spam or not, because spoofed messages could look like they’re coming from a friend’s account but actually have a virus).<\/p>\n
3. Don’t use an email address from an internet service provider (ISP). That would include AOL and MSN. Why? Because if you ever cancel your account with your ISP (maybe their service is terrible, their price goes up, or you decide to get DSL with another company), you lose your email address. The best way is to have a lifelong address that is not dependent upon the whims (or rates) of an ISP.<\/p>\n
4. Make sure your full name is included in the “From” box. The people you are writing to may know a lot of “Emilys” and having your last name there can be helpful to the recipient. (I have 10 Emilys in my address book and an email from “Emily” won’t tell me enough. Are you the Emily that I like or the Emily I don’t like?)<\/p>\n
Anything I missed?<\/p>\n
ADDITIONS:<\/p>\n
5. Don’t send me any emails at all if you don’t have anti-virus and anti-spyware on your computer. \u00a0 More on that in an upcoming post.<\/p>\n
6. If you think you just have to<\/em> forward me something, wait a few days and see if it’s still that good or critical. \u00a0 If so, send it. \u00a0 BUT…<\/p>\n 7. Do NOT forward something (or pretty much send any email ever) with my email address visible in the “to” or “cc” along with the addresses of everyone you know. \u00a0 I did not give you permission to share my email address with all of the people you think are your friends. \u00a0 It’s not only that I don’t want your friends emailing me, I don’t want their virus-infested computers spamming me. \u00a0 If you must send a mass email, use the BCC category so everyone’s email addresses remain private.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t intend to change the world’s email etiquette by this post, but perhaps there are a few of my readers who might learn something. 1. Always include a subject on your email. This makes it easier for the reader to identify the message. 2. Always “sign” your name near the end of your email\u2026 Read More »<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}