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Some of the most annoying things about life are those that
we have to deal with everyday. For example, the fact that
our neighbor’s dog has a fetish for stealing our newspaper,
having to get up before noon each and every day, and e-mail.
For people like myself, we spend hours upon hours shifting
through hundreds of e-mails a day. Now you would think that
the most annoying bits of e-mail would be questions or complaints,
oh no. The most annoying mail I get are long letters about
a king in some small unknown country that needs me to send
him five dollars to survive being overthrown by the villagers.
Now lets forget about the question of how my five dollars
are going to help him. Let us really try to comprehend who
in their right mind would fall for such a scam? This is
only a small taste of the way e-mail in general just tends
to get under my skin.
Another tactic that tends to get to me is the dancing banana
sent as an attachment. Now do not get me wrong, this was
cute the first, second maybe third time I saw it. Now on
the thirty-forth, thirty-fifth time, it has lost its magic.
Really any cute picture you see online, save it and send
it as an attachment makes me mad. The case being that it
starts with two people, then four, then six and so on. Soon,
everybody and their grandmother are telling others how annoyed
they are with the fact they keep getting it in the mail,
but they keep forwarding it to everybody in their address
book. My rule of thumb in general is to tell people, “Do
not open attachments,” as a long fan of Leo Laporte
from TechTV. The reason being is that you could end up opening
up a deadly virus that would kill your precious metal box
of joy. On the other hand, you could save yourself a lot
of frustration and fury by not seeing that dancing banana
for the thirty-sixth time in a row.
Really long signatures tend to make me mad as well. Now
putting something simple like your name or position is alright.
Maybe even putting a few quotes of few famous words you
love. All of that is perfectly fine with me. Now what we
do not need to read on your signature is a short biographical
representation of your entire life. It’s okay to leave
maybe one or two ways for me to reach you again, but do
not put your AIM, Yahoo, and MSN instant messenger names,
plus your home, work, cell numbers and you home address.
That is what is called a little too much information, half
of which your e-mail recipient will never find a reason
to use. Not sure if your signature is still too long? Take
this into consideration. If your signature is still three
times the size of the majority of the e-mail you send out
then you might want to cut it down some.
Now I am not one to be preaching e-mail educate to anyone,
these are just small samples of things that have made me
mad over the years, and I know I can’t be the only
one who wishes to raise his voice against the cold metal
box sitting in front of me. If you find yourself being an
offender of more than one of these traits I suggest you
take what I’ve said into consideration. If you’re
a king of some country who’s about to be ransacked
by the local yokels, I wish you the best of luck but I can
find better things to do with my five dollars.
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