If You Do This in Email, I Hate You

I HATE it- HATE it- when people "Reply All" with a message that is directed to one individual.

I also hate people who have to have the last word when the discussion is over.
them:"Thanks!"
me:"Welcome"
them:"That was nice"
me:"no prob."
them:"I owe you"
me:"np"
them:"You were really nice to do that for me."
me:"ok"
them: "no really, it was"
them:"Thanks again!"
them:"did you get my last e-mail?"
them:"hello?"
them:'Are you mad at me?"
them: "why the silent treatment???"
them:" What did I do????"
them: You are such an a__hole!!!!!! DIE PIG!!!"
ad nauseum.

1.) Pastors who blog on the church website.
(doesn't he have other things to do with his time?)
2.) Pastors who announce to members to read the website.
(With PowerPoint. OK, I get it, follow directions to keep updated)
3.) Pastors who send members an e-mail with the same text of their blog of the week.
(define duplicate redundancy)

When I asked to be taken off the blog subscription, not only did the office staff have to figure out how to take ONE person off the list, but pastor got all pissy like I unfriended him.
Guess I won't tell him how many other people I know are too busy to read their e-mails.

... My company automatically deletes emails after 3 months, making this kind of thing kind of ok (but stupid nonetheless).

The email purge policy is just a way for them to cover their ass and destroy documents and evidence. Awesome.

Ditto on pointless "Reply all". That's easily my #1.

#2 - "Cute" stationary or signatures.
#3 - Comic Sans MS font

Then in no particular order: Gratuitous emoticons (double hate if they're animated), ALL CAPS; the 12page email with about 3 dozen tangents and relevant points, but no details from the sender besides "fyi" or "Please review." Don't get mad if I just stare in "review" if you can't be bothered to summarize in a sentence what I need to address.

I get paid by the hour to work with people like this. Therefore, I love getting this sort of message. Those of you who dislike it for whatever reason, my professional advise is to delete the e-mail immediately.

People sending me attachments on my home email account after I've told everyone I automatically delete any emails with attachments.

Similarly people sending attachments of 5MB which turns out to be a joke video I've seen a bazillion times on you-tube.

Huge attachments. Attachments, period. HTML. HTML with Javascript. Anything other than plain ASCII text.

My church office recently sent a 6.4 megabyte file -- probably containing about five hundred bytes of useful information, but I didn't waste any time checking it -- to the mailing list of about forty people. I complained, pointing out that that big lump of whatever was about one-and-a-half times the size of the Bible. But they'll do it again, I know. They always do.

I hate the office mail sent to the whole place announcing something, and everybody hits "reply all" about it, so that a new employee gets 18 "congrats!" messages after the announcement (and so do I).

I must be even stupider than this imaginary person, because, I don't understand what the person doesn't understand, or why the expert thinks they are a lazy imbecile. Luckily I understand OTHER things.

One of my genius friends once sent me an email where the entire body was, "What's your email address?" I have laughed at him for years over this.

Hate it when someone replies to an email with a large attachment and sends me my attachment back with a comment such as "cool". With a slow connection, it's a pain. Please, delete the damn attachment before replying.
On a similar note, for idiots who can't use Google... http://lmgtfy.com/

People who never EVER change the subject line. Ever.

We had a user who once emailed us asking if email was down. We quickly responded yes.

I just got an email from my kids' school that displayed 500 names and addresses in the "to" field.

Sigh.

I replied and explained what a BCC was. The office staff probably hates me now.

"Duchespeak" - Hee!

i hate when someone i haven't heard from in a while finally emails me back...but it's some dumb 'joke', sentiment or photo-set with no personal greeting - that they sent to me and 20 others.

an email about how special i am that they want me to send back to them. WHY?!? oh, and they also sent it to 20 other people.

Did he died?

same here, ernest...