The Reply-All Button
I’m increasingly of the opinion that a world-wide petition should be started to have the “Reply-All” button in email clients (such as Outlook, Thunderbird etc) removed, or at least buried to make it difficult to use by accident.
After receiving yet another couple of emails from lists that I am on where someone has mindlessly “Reply-All”‘ed to everyone, rather than just directly to the person they wanted to email (and attached personal information (one of these days someone is going to provide the world with their credit card or banking details – I’m sure of it)) I have come to the conclusion that people are just not competent enough to have access to such a tool.
Categories: Software
Email, Email Client, Global, Outlook, Reply-All, Thunderbird
I have the opposite problem. I send out emails that are more like small group “conversations”, and nobody can seem to figure out that “Yes, this is the time to use the “reply to all” button”. I think there’s a stupidity problem, and the best thing to do is let these stupid people get stung by not checking who is in their “TO” and “CC” fields when replying to emails.
I somehow never had this problem personally. (now that I said that, I’m going to blow it)
I second everything there – (including the last line!) It is a good tool, when used correctly.
It always worries me that i might accidentally click it tho without even thinking and that would be a nightmare lol! x.