Friday, March 3, 2006

Attention: Christa E Fritz

The next time you send out an email on behalf of Rod Smith, IBM Vice President of Emerging Technology, with the subject ATTENTION! ATTENTION! IBM WANTS YOU TO.... (ISYN), you might consider using the Bcc: field, or telling Lotus Notes not to expand the distribution list, if only to shorten the message length, if not to shield the entire attendee list for the O'Reilly etech conference from automated reply storms and address catchers.

And the all caps style for Subject: lines went out of style with PROFS.

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e.p.c. posted this at 01:57 GMT on 3-Mar-2006 .

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