Which of these e-mail habits annoy you the most?

[CBHagman]

Poll question: Which of these e-mail habits annoy you the most?

Ah, e-mail -- a godsend in terms of quick communication, a bane in terms of soul-destroying, time-wasting procedures.

We've all had at least some of the following experiences. Tell me which bother you the most, or provide your own e-mail bete noire.

[LNM]

1. sending a forwarded email as an attachment

ARRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH. Having to save it to disc, run a virus scan, open it, find it's another attachment, save it, scan it, open it, find out it's a debunked urban legend. I quit reading them.

[CBHagman]

2. A friend of mine does that constantly.

I have dial-up, and the result is that it takes so long to scan and download anything she sends, I've forgotten all about the e-mail by the time the image/movie/whatever appears. :grr:

Also, to be blunt, a lot of this stuff isn't as wonderful as one would have you believe...

[calico1]

19. Most of what has been mentioned but also

just the way people use e-mail. I had once thought it was a fantastic invention. Imagine. You can communicate with friends or relatives as often as you want and don't have to mail the letter. I am old enough to remember when writing letters was the only way (besides phone of course). So what happens? Most of the time when I exchange e-mails with someone I want to keep in touch with, what do they do? Never e-mail me a letter. Just jokes, "chain letter" e-mails, etc. Even when I e-mail to write a "hi, how have you been, etc." I get nothing. Just jokes and chain e-mail. WHY, WHY, WHY do people do this? If I haven't seen you in a long time or I just want to keep in touch with you, I don't want stupid jokes or chain e-mails that have been forwarded 50 times before you. Just don't bother if you aren't going to keep in touch. :mad:

[bif]

3. Total lack of punctuation and upper case letters.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

11. Seconded

[seemunkee]

4. Those all apply to my father-in-law

Most I delete without reading.

[Swede]

5. Forwarded mail that has hundreds of addresses.

Clean them up for god's sake. You know they are forwarding your address.

[laheina]

6. Forwarded repug or fundie propaganda

forwarded by people who don't stop to think that you may not be either. Or even worse, forwarded by people that either don't care that you may not agree or think that they are doing you a favor by teaching you the truth.

[MissMillie]

7. gets my vote

though these often fall under "easily debunked" stuff.

[laheina]

8. A lot of it, but some other stuff

is just annoying or offensive.

For example: one series of emails that someone kept sending me was about fundie commandos that were sneaking their families into hostile countries in order to "save" citizens of those countries. The tactics that these people used to convert were really sneaky, and I found the whole idea ethically challenged.

Then I had a real estate agent that would send us the Rushisms of the day. I was really close to calling her and telling her off, but my husband wouldn't let me do it.

[riona]

9. we get a ton of it

even from those who know how i feel.

[CBHagman]

14. I no longer wonder that people fall for the Nigerian scam.

I had wondered why people were taken in by scams in e-mail, but now I'm convinced I have the answer: people will believe just about everything and not bother to check it out.

What really upsets me are these e-mails with medical advice or warnings, like that one that claims coughing rhythmically will help save your life in a heart attack (debunked in various places, including at the American Heart Association website). I want to write back and ask people, "Who are you going to believe on medical matters: a doctor or nurse who has formal training in a particular specialty, or some e-mail of unknown origin?"

And people will send these to everyone in their address book! :banghead:

[u4ic]

20. Even up here in Canada

I'm receiving that crap that's been "Canadian-ized"...I'll never forget the one stating "we're fighting in Iraq".

:wtf:

[leftofthedial]

10. email chain letters

with forwarded email as an attachment

forwarded with 50 generations of previous victims.

[MiniMandaRuth]

12. Oh jebus, I hate all that stuff.

'LOL lok at teh awsom pic i have its so kewl'

I hate the world of teenager netspeak.

[Guy Fawkes]

13. Sending email to PEOPLE YOU LIVE WITH!

Stop doing that! Just fucking talk to them. If you live in the same house, you don't need e-mail!

[sbj405]

15. Other. Reply All.

[veganred]

16. All Caps

[blondeatlast]

17. I've blocked my own sister for doing all of them.

:mad::mad::mad:

I get something like 150 work-related, legit e-mails a day. I sure as hell don't need that crap.

[grace0418]

18. My father in law is guilty of all of them.

Oh the crap he sends me would ASTOUND you.

[swag]

21. Smilies, "LOL", "ROTFLMAO", all that type of shit.

[FunkyLeprechaun]

22. When people put me on a mailing list...

without notifying me. Not only do I get their newsletters, my email gets spammed.

It sucks.

[Sequoia]

23. Chain letters with annoying care bear type creatures.

Especially the religous ones which threaten you'll be punished otherwise.

[Mz Pip]

24. I have a cousin-in-law

who sends me all kinds of RW chain letters. On a daily basis.

It took her two years to write an e-mail telling me my aunt was in a nursing home with Altzheimers. But she manages to forward every RW bandwagon patriot piece of crap to me on a daily basis.

Go figure.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Dukkha]

25. emails that have lots of THIS in them:

>>>>>>>
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note forward attached

>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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FWD: Re:Re:Re:Re:

CLEANUP THE GOD DAMN EMAIL YOU LOOK FUCKING RETARDED!

and and quit saying shit like PWNED! Your not in Jr. High speak like an adult!

[CBHagman]

26. Okay, I'll bite.

What, in the name of all that is sacred and holy, is PWNED? Enlighten me.

[Dukkha]

29. PWNED is

used by the Internet gaming culture, means to dominate an opponent. In this context, to be pwned can be defined as "to be defeated" with the strong connotation of also having been "made a fool of." While the term probably originated as a typographical error of the word own, it is now used intentionally by many members of the culture.

so in a nut shell it came from constant misspelling and abbreviating online.

[Hobarticus]

27. When someone "replies all" with a comment best kept private...

without thinking who else may be reading their obnoxious reply.

[Shine]

28. I hate the cutesy shit that asks you to pass it on to 10 other people

:mad: