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- From: NAVARRETE@AppleLink.Apple.COM (Navarrete, Ed)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.oop.macapp3
- Subject: EMail etiquette proposal
- Message-ID: <724725949.1441399@AppleLink.Apple.COM>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 00:02:00 GMT
- Sender: daemon@Apple.COM
- Organization: AppleLink Gateway
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- hello,
-
- Due to the tremendous number of e-mails I get everyday I would like to suggest
- some guides that could be used on MacAppTech$ when sending links. Maybe this
- could come up for discussion at the MADA meeting at SF MacWorld. I think the
- reason most people leave Tech$ is due to the load and losing private E-mails.
- By following some guidelines I think this would help decrease this frustration
- level.
-
- Ed Navarrete/DTS
- Apple Computer, Inc.
-
- This is from a set of guidelines proposed at Apple:
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- E-mail overload faces all of us, and a great number of messages do not directly
- contribute to the ongoing successful of our jobs. In addition it is often
- difficult to determine the content of an e-mail from the title alone.
- And in order to maintain a high level of responsiveness we need to be able to
- filter the highest priority e-mails by scanning the titles/subject heading.
-
- o Here are the guidelines:
- When addressing an e-mail message please begin the title/subject line with one
- of the following prefixes...
-
- Prefix Meaning
- FYI: For Your information, non-essential info, but of possible interest
- PI: Personal information directed to an individual, no response req'd
- R: This e-mail requires a direct response and is required reading
-
- If you send an e-mail message to more than one person, add a "$" to the prefix
- to indicate that the e-mail is being broadcast to a group.
-
- In addition, if the e-mail involves a deadline, please include that date. If
- you see a date in the title/subject line of an e-mail, always consider it to be
- the deadline, schedule or due date.
-
- Examples: FYI$: Local MADA meeting
- PI$: Thank you for your response
- R$: How do I ...
-
- Finally, please consider these 'e-mail etiquette' ideas when creating mail:
-
- o One-minute-emails! - develop the practice of writing e-mails that fit on one
- page and can be read in under a minute. Enclosed longer documents if needed.
- o Intelligible titles - make sure the title makes sense and gives a hint at the
- content of the link (i.e. "I'm at Comdex till 1/22", _not just_ "Outta here!").
- o Assume appreciation - respond to e-mails with _content_ only; simple "thank
- you for your reply" messages are not needed (unless really called for).
- o Compress wisely - do not compress small files (i.e. under 100k) as this
- requires several extra steps for the reader to download, decompress and read.
-
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