Do you Know this Toxic Emailer: Forwarding Frank

Forwarding Frank forwards e-mails indiscriminately, without editing, or explaining the forward.

Another practice that seems to get people’s goats is to receive a long strain of e-mail correspondence — I have seen some with more than 10 appended e-mails — with the simple statement, “see below.” How will the recipients know which part of which e-mail was important?

Frank’s Antidote:  By taking just seconds to “clean up” the forwarded e-mails, and highlighting or even summarizing the most important points, you will save your readers time and confusion.  Even more so, you may save yourself from unnecessary return e-mails with questions asking for clarification.

Excerpted from Inbox Detox, Acanthus Publishing, 2009

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