"I have no idea why I get messages from this guy telling he's going to be out of the office", a co-worker, Mobby, complained. "I mean, I have never sent this guy a message and he never sends me anything - except when he's going to be out of the office!"Yes, we've all had something like this happen to us before. I tend to get them when people change e-mail addresses; then up pops an e-mail from someone who you last heard from when you still had all your hair exhorting you to "make sure you update your contact list with my new information!"
I don't know how to respond politely telling them they were never IN my contact list.
Wonder why people do this? Is it just to make it seem to the rest of the people on the distribution list that they are popular? That all these people you're seeing in the "To:" field care about their whereabouts or how to stay in contact with them?
Guess it's sorta like an e-mail version of the "Friends" feature on MySpace.
For all you out there that like to do this? Be a maverick: put your distribution in the BCC so no one would know about the others.
Now that would really show your mettle.
- Farmer Ted
1 comment:
Hey that Mobby character is right on...must be really smart! He might even find himself in a crowd.
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