Nov242008
Monday Mundanity
Filed under Uncategorized by Kim at 3:05 pm on Nov 24 2008
Here’s a fine post for a Monday, something really niggling and silly to think about.
Why do some people turn on read receipt for every single email they send out? Do they really like to recieve approximately a million receipts a day in their mailboxes?
I have turned on read receipt two times in my entire life. Exactly twice have I deemed an email so important for people to read that I would like to see an acknowledgement that they have read it to ease my mind that they recieved my email which almost certainly contained a message that directly impacted their immediate health and welfare.
Yet there are people who turn this feature on for, as far as I can tell, literally every single email they send out. And now I’ve discovered that there’s a further feature, one that tells the sender if you deleted their email! So when I go to empty my trash several messages relating to whether I want to let [unnamed person] know I’m deleting their email pop up. Really? You really needed to know I was deleting your email?
I am not that torqued about an extra click, but I just don’t get it. Can anyone explain it to me?
1 jarlenerosson 25 Nov 2008 at 10:49 pm
I had no idea that you could even do that! (read reciepts)
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Kim Reply:
November 26th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
I think it might be an Outlook thing, mainly, but I think my webmail client for my personal mail does it as well. Don’t you start though!
This also reminds me, we need to set you up with a mommy blog so you can write!
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