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Inoculating a Reply All plague

June 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Content management, Lessons, Technology

TweetThe “Reply All” feature of most email programs like Outlook is a convenience ripe for abuse. Unfortunately such abuse seems to occur about once a quarter or so where I work. Folks add an alias to their message (To or Cc) that ends up involving a multitude of folks who could care less about the [...]

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Recall this message

July 27th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Lessons, Technology

TweetInstead of recalling messages, delay their delivery long enough to confirm they’re truly right to send in the first place. While reviewing my flagged and annotated items in Omea, I was reminded of Scott Hanselman’s post on Outlook’s “Recall this message” function being naive. When I first flagged Scott’s post, I annotated it to remember [...]

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