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Email Pain Point Solved by Social Network

Started by manalang · 9 months ago

Stop me if you’ve heard this one.
Someone sends an email to a distribution list. Someone replies to all, and people start asking for removal, also replying to all. Snarky comments ensue. Inbox is stuffed with replies to all.
You know the drill.
So, yesterday morning, someon ... Continue reading »

8 comments

  • max

    9 months ago

    This is pretty common on facebook for me, i wish there was a way to unsubscribe from those email conversations entirely. But you know what, it's sort of fun to yell at a captive audience.
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  • Jake

    9 months ago

    I wouldn't know :) I just lulz in the background. I have noticed that on FB too, and it's a bit weird. FB was supposed to kill email, but now it's a nice reflection of why email is dying anytime soon.
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  • ontarioemperor

    9 months ago

    We had a nasty one of those mailing list tempests erupt a little over a year ago. Since we were a remote office, our local IT staff implemented a filter to keep the offending mailing list messages out.

    Part of this is a simple lack of understanding about the mechanics of mailing lists - anything that you send to the list is automatically sent to everyone on the list, even if it's a "please remove me from the list" message. One possible solution is to include unsubscribe information in the footer of every message sent by the list.
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  • Jake

    9 months ago

    You reminded me. Another thing that set this eruption off from your average one is that people actually sent how to create a filter emails. Classic.

    I agree there seems to be a gap about the mechanics of a mailing list, but I also think that due to acquisitions, a lot of people don't really know how to remove themselves. That excuse only worked after the first one or two "you have to remove yourself" emails
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  • Chris

    9 months ago

    Yep. I endured it. I can only hope most of the people were "new" to the company? I think my total inbox tally for that (I set up a filter to a temp folder) came in around 350 messages. The funny thing here for me is I am not in sales, it was a sales list, but I assume I am on some list that is on some list that....

    It kinda feels like people at a concert all standing up and yelling for everyone else to sit down.
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  • Jake

    9 months ago

    Ha, good analogy. I especially enjoyed the paragraph of all caps and the ones about salary increases. Very clever stuff. Annoyance brings out the creativity in some people.

    I agree that the remove mes were spurred by people new to the company, but after a couple, that excuse didn't wash. Good stuff all around, made the day go faster for me.
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  • AmiD

    9 months ago

    I was one of the spam victims as well. I am also not in sales, so I am not sure how I got on the dlist in the first place.

    Email filters saved me. I stopped counting at 280 emails that ended up in my trash folder. This little spam-a-thon did inspire me to add a post to my connect group on how to use filters.

    I also have high hopes that as more people become Connect savvy we will have fewer abuses of dlists, even though they do provide a little comic relief. I specifically liked the emailer who felt obligated to include a Dilbert cartoon in their reply.
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  • Jake

    9 months ago

    I missed the Dilbert one. It's going to take time to change people's default behavior, but I hope soon that these spam storms will be dinosaurs.
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