[Novalug] WHY I need to know

Beartooth beartooth@Beartooth.Info
Thu Mar 27 16:57:02 EDT 2014


On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Katie Cunningham wrote:

> Dan: In your case, that's fine. I'm talking about people using 
> them for other interactions, like when we simply want to know 
> that someone read an email because we want to pester them about 
> a response.

 	Precisely. It's an instrument (better, a precursor to an 
instrument) of coercion (which my bosses used to use), and 
deserves an appropriate response.

 	Upon receiving any such screed now, guessing the purpose, 
I'd do at least one of three things: delete it, killfile it, a/o 
delete the sender from my .addressbook. Most likely would be all 
three. I might so inform the sender, but not often.

 	Dan's example is to me now a blessedly rare exception -- 
as my favorite T-shirt proclaims, "I don't want to, I don't have 
to, you can't make me. I'M RETIRED." It seems to me that sending 
such a message (or so marking one) is inherently insulting 
outside a business context.

-- 
Beartooth Implacable, Curmudgeon On Line
Where am I, and why am I in this handbasket?



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