For those who used Outlook Express or anything similar as your main email program, have you ever had to open emails after emails like this to get to the main content of the forwarded email sent by your friends and colleagues? I'm not sure how it is if you're using web mail, but I just want to comment what a painful experience that can be. The only reason I'm taking the trouble to open emails after emails is because it's forwarded by a friend, with the assumption it must be something interesting that your friend think you must see it too. If the sender is not anyone close to me, I'd just delete the email after opening 2-3 layers of the same email. I am not going to let my self sit through the process of opening layers upon layers of email from a stranger, while gritting my teeth wondering when I will reach the main email content. Every time I click 'Open', I'll be praying and hoping that this will be the last one, and my shoulders will dropped in disappointment when there's more email to open.
All it takes is for the sender to do one or two steps before clicking the 'Forward' button. If the email is displayed as inline text, take the trouble to delete the top portion and the bottom portion of the email that has got nothing to do whatsoever to the content of the email you want to forward. If the emails are sent as attachments where you have to open layers upon layers of email before getting to the main content, click 'Forward' at the main email content instead of from the e-mail’s main page that you receive. Otherwise, you'll add another layer when your friend opens up the email. This will then propagate until one people either just delete the email without reading it or take the trouble to 'clean' up the email before forwarding it to his/her friends. If you have so many >>>> signs in the email you received, try cleaning it up with Email Stripper, a small but useful program that can clean all those >>>> signs for you with a click of a button.
Please try the above steps. You want your friends to enjoy the email you forward to them. Not grit their teeth while trying to get to the content of the email you think they should see. This will also reduce the size of the email. You will not clog your friend's mailbox, and also fewer loads on the internet traffic.
Sunflower gives the connotation of cheerfulness, bright, jolly, merry... you get the idea! However, if any content in this blog didn't fit the cheerfulness implied by its name, look at it this way... I'm putting down all the wretchedness, gloom, melancholy feeling in here so I can continue living up to the expectation of making the association to the sunflower.
3 comments:
It's email ettiquette. But after 2-3 pleas to the sender to take the time to snip - all in vain - I had to resort to write back to my friends to stop forwarding me "forwards" anymore. They hated it, but I guess sometimes when push comes to shove, you need to do what you need to do.
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thanks zeyeen. you're right. sometimes it only works for a short while before they start doing it again. probably its too much of a hassle to 'clean' the email than for us to delete them :)
email stripper? the best way is to just delete. for me, forwarded mails are the scum of the net. there's really nothing worth reading. most are fake, useless, bad-grammared, silly.
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