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The Sender, cont'd.

3.  If at all possible, when sending to a group of people, send to them in the BCC line:  Blind Carbon Copy.  [Those old enough will remember that letters would be sent to people with 'blind carbon copies' sent to others through using carbon copy paper - ancient technology!]  That means that people in the BCC line don't know who else got the email.  It also means that hitting REPLY shouldn't spread it beyond who needs to be replied to [the sender].

4.  When you send email to a group of people, everyone on the TO or CC line of the email sees, can copy, can reply to, can use, every other person's email address even if that person would prefer not to have it spread so wide. Everyone placed in the BCC line is [as much as possible] shielded as from unnecessary responses or from having their email addresses sent onto others.

 

N'etiquette for the Sender

The Sender:  Most senders are originators of the email, and these suggestions are directed at them.  But for those who are Forwarding-Senders just remember one point:  when you receive an email you want to share, don’t just forward it.  Trim parts of it so you’re only sending on what you intend to share:  delete email in the CC line, in the body if contents have been copied there, and any parts of the body which are irrelevant, such as duplicate contents. Get in the habit of only forwarding the specific item or information you want to send.

1.  The best practice is to have a fail-safe, so that you create the email and it sits in the out box until it is to be sent, by schedule or manual click.  Sometimes you might want to stop it from going out, and this is a good practice - give yourself 15-30 minutes or more between creation and sending.

2.  Another good practice is to think about who really needs to receive the email:  a person, a small group of people, a whole group of people.  Not every communication has to go to the widest group;  narrowly target who you send to - you can always send to others later.

 

Email N’etiquette - some suggestions for Senders and Receivers

As a result of some email communications to/from friends of mine in a group, I put together some suggestions for positive email communication.  Email etiquette asks that each of us, sender and recipient, be responsible for what we send and how we send it.  So, in a series of blog posts, I thought I would share suggestions on Email N’etiquette for people who want to spend time communicating while not being overly technical in figuring out how to do so.

The first point to realize is that how your email works is controlled by the system you are using [your email program, whether it’s in the cloud or on your computer] as well as by how you use it.  You probably can’t control the former other than through setting up its preferences, but you have total control over the latter.

 

More over the following days

 

Shutdown?

Those who say 'shut it down' don't much care about whether the Federal Government goes out of business, for a few days or forever.  And they certainly don't care about the people who will be affected.

The Harpy is back at it....Back up!!!!!

Have you ever made a mistake?  I made a huge one the other day, but was saved!  So my cautionary tale is being shared, not to paint myself as incredibly stupid but to demonstrate that even being that, one can be incredibly lucky.  

The other day I was doing some cleaning up and moving things on my computer, folders that were also being synced to a cloud site.  Long story short, I ended up deleting not only those on my own computer but also those on my cloud site.  One minute I had folders of information [much important stuff] and the next, poof!!!, everything gone.  Totally.

One lesson:  if you're syncing with a cloud site, don't delete your computer data because it'll sync and overwrite the cloud site copy too [I compounded it by also cleaning out the deleted files off the cloud site]. The cloud site is now clean, but that is what caused the problem.

Fortunately, I have a Mac and am running OS X and knew that I kept TimeMachine backups.  TimeMachine is part of OS X and does an hourly incremental backup to an external drive so that when you act stupidly, you can go back in time and correct the problem [if you set it up right!].  So, with some trepidation, I went to TimeMachine and went back in time to a few hours before my screwup.  I found the now-missing folders and restored them to my computer.  You can choose to replace/overwrite or to save both and I always choose the latter, figuring I can clean off the 'original' later.  

I am here to report success.  Everything in those folders has been transitioned back onto the computer and onto the cloud, to which it syncs.  

Lessons learned:  always always always backup incrementally and don't work with your computer and data in the wee hours of the morning.