I just love the communication tools we have at our disposal in this day and age. Earlier tonight I received a rather unpleasant email from an apparently frustrated individual (let’s call him Joe) in reply to a message I sent to a mailing list. He quite insistently requested to be taken off said mailing list, […]
Tag Archives: netiquette
Bottom posting in Mail.app (with Quicksilver)
John Gruber posted his applescript for Mail.app to “bottom-post” reply to an email last week (and I’m just now reading it, sigh). However, he talks about using FastScripts to invoke the script whereas I prefer Quicksilver for things like this if possible. The advantage of FastScripts is that it grabs the keystroke before the application […]
E-mail is not a platform for design
I’ve been away from my blog for quite a while due to some various medical problems, but I really do have a number of posts in the works. It’s a a little lame to return with just a link, but this one is near and dear to my heart: E-mail is not a platform for […]
Email Etiquette: Replying to Mailing Lists
Most email clients support the idea of “threaded messages”… that is, the client can group together individual email messages that are part of the same conversation, or “thread”. This is a particularly useful feature on mailing lists where multiple conversations are happening at the same time. For example, the following screenshot of the OpenID General […]