PSA: When drafting an email

[JS80]

When drafting an email, always wait to put the recipients in AFTER you finish.

Basically, I got pwnd by Ctrl+Enter in Outlook (meant to do Alt+Enter).

 

[HopJokey]

Does "Ctrl-Enter" send the message?

 

[dclapps]

Dont forget this one:
Whenever you use the word attach, stop typing immediately and ATTACH the file.

 

[Red Squirrel]

LOL so true on both waiting to put the recipients and attaching the file FIRST. I've been guilty of doing both, sending a half done email, and forgetting to put an attachement. The worse is if both happen on the SAME email.

I work at help desk so I have to send emails to all employees of a certain company sometimes. I always ensure to put the distribution list after I'm fully ready to send it. So far no accidents with mass mails, but it's bound to happen. Happens to everyone. The best is the time someone replied to an outage notice I sent and called me a nerd, just for fun, but he hit reply all. Doh! joke was on him lol.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: HopJokey
Does "Ctrl-Enter" send the message?

Yes

Originally posted by: dclapps
Dont forgot this one:
Whenever you use the word attach, stop typing immediately and ATTACH the file.

haha yes that's a good one too

 

[sswingle]

Originally posted by: dclapps
Dont forgot this one:
Whenever you use the word attach, stop typing immediately and ATTACH the file.

Gmail has a labs plugin that looks for the word attach and reminds you if you forget to attach something. Kinda nifty.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: dclapps
Dont forgot this one:
Whenever you use the word attach, stop typing immediately and ATTACH the file.

:laugh:

Yes indeed. I've sent so very many followup e-mails with forgotten attachments.

 

[Cattlegod]

Originally posted by: dclapps
Dont forgot this one:
Whenever you use the word attach, stop typing immediately and ATTACH the file.

:thumbsup:

 

[rudeguy]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: dclapps
Dont forgot this one:
Whenever you use the word attach, stop typing immediately and ATTACH the file.

:laugh:

Yes indeed. I've sent so very many followup e-mails with forgotten attachments.

from: NSFW
subject: re: important schedule changes


Sorry, here is the file.

 

[Demo24]

Originally posted by: dclapps
Dont forgot this one:
Whenever you use the word attach, stop typing immediately and ATTACH the file.

My philosophy teacher seems to have trouble with this concept. So far every email he has sent to us generally gets sent twice to attach the document.

 

[dclapps]

It only took me one mistake to learn to say it out loud. The reason I forgot it was because I was so focused on making the email perfect...

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

The reply all is a bigger problem I think. I am on the state mailing list for librarians, and if there are 20 messages sent to the mailing list per day, about FIVE of them were sent to the entire list instead of one person. It makes me seriously question the intelligence of these people.

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

Originally posted by: NSFW

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: dclapps
Dont forgot this one:
Whenever you use the word attach, stop typing immediately and ATTACH the file.

:laugh:

Yes indeed. I've sent so very many followup e-mails with forgotten attachments.

from: NSFW
subject: re: important schedule changes


Sorry, here is the file.

More like
Subject: THIRD attempt to send this file
Body: It must be Monday
Attachments: None

 

[Caveman]

Yeah... I'd think I'd know by now...

Only goofed up this 1-2... HUNDRED times...

edit: Oh look... I just forgot to attach the quote from the poster who posted about attachments...

Shoot me now.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: dclapps
Dont forget this one:
Whenever you use the word attach, stop typing immediately and ATTACH the file.

good advice. i cant tell you how many times ive sent something without the attachment

 

[jonnyjack]

Empty subject fields too. Another thing to remember is to doublecheck who you're sending to because of the autocomplete. I've almost sent emails to sales group since my boss' name is sal.

I also don't fill out the recipients fields until I'm done with the email.

 

[JS80]

Oh and there's always sending it to the wrong person. You type in first two letters of last name real quick after you write your email, press tab and send. Oh sh!t sent to the wrong Kim. Those damn Koreans!

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol we had this new guy start up, he had the same first name as the HR manager of the whole company. For a few weeks he kept getting all these highly confidential emails because people would just see the first name popup in the GAL and click it, as there was only 1 and now there was 2. what I don't get is why their auto complete did not pickup the right guy right off the bat considering they never sent to this new guy.

He was on a service call once and gets this alarming call on his cell. "Did you read your email? If yes delete it right now and pretend you never even saw it". He was so confused as it made it sound like he did something wrong, but it's because an insanely confidential email was accidentally sent to him. Probably about major layoffs or something, who knows.

Comes to prove, even the big head honchos will do these mistakes.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: sswingle

Originally posted by: dclapps
Dont forgot this one:
Whenever you use the word attach, stop typing immediately and ATTACH the file.

Gmail has a labs plugin that looks for the word attach and reminds you if you forget to attach something. Kinda nifty.

I forgot I enabled that plugin, and then went to send an email and it stopped me and wanted me to confirm sending without attachment. Phew. That plugin is amazing.