Essential things everyone should know about email
- Anyone can send Email to anyone pretending to be from anyone else.
- Email is not guaranteed to arrive quickly or at all.
- Your Emails can be read by other people.
- Email wasn't designed to handle large files.
- Any Email that asks you to forward it on to other people is a chain letter, and should be deleted.
- You can't trust any Email from anyone.
- If you put your Email address on the public internet even once, you will forever get spam.
- Never reply to junk mail or scams.
- Emails do not convey emotion and can easily be misunderstood.
Source: http://bla.st/site/blog/34/
I'd like to add a few more:
- Once you click 'send', there's no 'undo'.
- There's no way of knowing if and when the recipient has read your Email.
- The danger with composing HTML Email is that it may not look the same on the recipient's end.
The 2 point is wrong, you can know if & when the recipient has read your Email by sending the mail with "Return Reciept" option enables, the option is available in Thunderbird & other desktop mail clients.
Posted by Amit on November 27, 2007 at 03:36 PM PST #
@Amit I'm afraid this is a common mis-perception. "Return Receipt" only gives people a false sense of assurance. Here's an article that goes into more detail: http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/return_receipt.html
Posted by Robert Chien on November 27, 2007 at 04:11 PM PST #