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I have a new pet peeve. Actually, I have about 20 of them, and according to my wife, I'm nothing but a petty complainer, but nevermind that. Read about the peeve. I think we need to start a petition that we can send to ALL email-software vendors to request that they remove the REPLY TO ALL button from their software. Never was a worse feature added to a program, really. That REPLY TO ALL button is far worse than the DUH button a friend gave me for my keyboard years ago, because it actually works. The reason it's so bad is because people are magnetically drawn to it for absolutely no sane reason. My coworkers seem to think that if replying to the sender with schedule information or other relatively useless detail is appropriate, then it must be 20x more appropriate to cheerfully include the other 20 people on the message. This happens all day, every day, to the point that my email box is brimming with threads such as the following (all REPLIED TO ALL). SENDER: We need to...