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Lesson #1: Fundamentals of Email.

Hey, you lazy dumbasses, learn some email manners !

I don’t care what you send to other folks, but if you want me to work for you then you should upgrade your email skills. In particular, if you send a post to be posted to my discussion group and your subject line is wrong I may reject the post.

1. Write your own subject line. Don’t use the previous subject line unless it is appropriate. Often the subject line conveys the entire message such as “I vote yes on your proposal to buy a scanner.” Subject lines are also used to search for an email and to automatically sort email. Example: Yahoo can sort my emails by alphabetical order of the words in the subject line. The subject lines are listed in the archive of messages to my Yahoo group. Often the subject of the post does not match the subject/ header line because the writer is too lazy. Don’t be a lazy writer. Years ago the custom was to recognize a conversational thread by the subject line. Today the computer automatically tracks the thread; you can use the subject/ header line for its true purpose: to summarize the post or give it a title.

a. Telephone number. Maybe. Write your telephone number in the subject line if you want a call back. Better yet: Adjust your email browser so that it automatically writes your telephone number in your signature line.

b. For my clients: Write your client number and/ or chronology number on the subject line. This permits me to find your electronic folder easier. It permits me to file your email easier. I know: A better email program will file automatically.

c. Discuss only one subject per email. Write that subject in the subject line. If you have another subject then write another email.

2. Write your response above the tail. Do not interlineate. This means: Don’t write your answer below the previous email. Exception: Sure, interlineate if appropriate, like if you have 3 or more interlineations and your comments are answers to the lines.

3. Do not write in ALL CAPS. Some people named Julie have their msn mail name in ALL CAPS.

4. Clip the tail unless it is pertinent - especially if the previous email was long. The tail is that string of previous messages that automatically gets appended to your email. Sometimes they are useful - especially if they are short.

5. Got AOL? AOL sucks. If you use AOL then you suck too. Get a Yahoo email address for free in 4 minutes at www.mail.yahoo.com AOL censors any message with the word “Lawyerdude” in it. That’s because I publish a Supreme Court opinion in which the Supreme Court talks about the F word. Therefore AOL think that it is pornography. Buncha dumbasses.

6. Use the automatic signature function so that each of your emails automatically prints your name, phone number, address, whatever you want.

7. Don’t use bcc ! BCC is “blind carbon copies.” We all need to respond to all recipients; what’s the big secret.

8. Do not send a short file as an attachment; paste it into the text box. Ron Fox is a big offender here. He sends me an email with a 10 word attachment. Then I must let my email program scan the attachment. Then I must save the attachment and then read it. Often Ron’s entire message is one name, like the name of the court reporter. He should write that in the subject line.

9. Don’t send zip files. Nobody uses them anymore. That is 80s technology.

10. Send only well known attachments such as pdf doc jpg mpg avi txt. Do no send TIFF etc.