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Wednesday July 19, 2006

Sun needs your help ! Improving email

I am part of a project that is out to improve the use of email in Sun. It is fair to say that there are people who send good emails and there are those who send emails that are impossible to decipher. Sun has a long history of using email and it never used the traditional memos that perhaps older companies used before they moved to email. It is strange as you would never send out a memo to a thousand people but with one email you can easily do so. So the technology has its strengths and weaknesses most of which result from human activities.

So I have setup a collaboration space on Sun's network where people can add their own bugbears ideas on good email practice etc. But I would like to hear from others on what they think/do. Anything from signature formats, subject lines, use of vacation, using reply/all , forwarding other emails, use of spell checkers and so on. By providing this information you will be helping us, which will make communication with Sun a hopefully even more pleasurable experience than it is now. Thank you in advance.

( Jul 19 2006, 12:00:00 AM PDT ) Permalink