Here's another million dollar freebie for you; will someone please write a new book about email etiquette? Use The Rules as a guide, since I have a pretty good idea the (moronic, pedestrian) people who bought and read The Rules are the same people who insist upon sending me pictures of penis-shaped rock formations and Stupid Blonde Jokes, and a follow-up email three days later pointedly demanding to know why I never responded to the pics of cock-rocks they went to great lengths to FWD:FWD:fwd:fwd: to everyone in their address book. It could be a leaflet really; bullet points of easy-to-digest information like, using the scenario above, how response is to effect what a question is to cause. No, wait, I forgot about the audience...how you actually have to ask someone something before you can expect them to answer you.
And could you include a few tips on how to "break up" an email relationship? How to get off of your ex-boyfriend's aunt's daily prayer and Jell-O™recipe-of-the-month mailing list? Because I've tried everything with this bi'atch.
Posted by Antigeist at March 17, 2005 09:18 AMoh those. not those. please not those. I rant on it as well;
http://epigraph.org/blog/?p=33
and given the audience you're thinking of, maybe "short words and short sentences" should be added to the recipe.
Send her the cock-rock e-mails in return. That should stop it.
Posted by: gmb at March 17, 2005 11:42 PM"Send her the cock-rock e-mails in return"
LOVE it. I was thinking about combining the two...making Jell-O penises, and offering them as my contribution to the recipe of the month.
Posted by: antigeist at March 18, 2005 09:56 AM
send a mass e-mail to all the people from whom you get this stuff, explaining that your account now filters out all e-mails with more than one addressee, and that you have installed this filter as the only way to avoid spam (everybody hates spam, including spam generators, so they will feel empathy without realizing This Means You).
this has two benefits: 1) that you can wide-eyed declare "sorry i didn't respond but my spam filter must have blah blah" and 2) since you are sending it to both parties, they will then be placed on each others' funny/prayer forward list, and neither of them will realize you did it to them.
Posted by: anne at March 20, 2005 08:31 AM