• ZagorathOP
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    1 year ago

    I’ve been is way too many email chains with 10+ people on copy where everyone needs to be notified and someone replies to just 1 at some point, then people don’t get correctly notified and works gets harder

    I would strongly suggest that if you’re trying to organise something in that way, email is a woefully incorrect tool to be using for it. Use a group chat like Slack or Teams.

    The fact that there are some cases where reply all is appropriate absolutely does not excuse it being the default.

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      1 year ago

      I would strongly suggest that if you’re trying to organise something in that way

      Tell that to consultant jobs where consultant teams and client teams communicate all over email. I agree with you but this is the reality we live in.

      Also,

      The fact that there are some cases where reply all is appropriate absolutely does not excuse it being the default.

      I don’t really see the benefit of having reply single as the default. It avoids fuckups like this one, but as stated, I would never say something like this over email.

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        1 year ago

        It would also stop the far-too-common experience of someone replying all when they meant to only send it to one person, annoying and causing distraction to the possibly hundreds of other people included on the original email.

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          1 year ago
          • on a reply all email storm
          • “Please stop replying all”
          • clicks Reply All
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          1 year ago

          far-too-common

          Is it? In a year working in a consultant this happened only once in an internal company email, while chains being lost happened weekly.

          I still wish reply all was the default in Outlook, it would make my life so much easier.

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            1 year ago

            Is it?

            It’s literally happened to me multiple times this week.

            I’ve never had the scenario you describe happen. Literally never failed to receive an email because someone didn’t reply all when they wanted to.