EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE RULE!! (READ IMMEDIATELY! THE FUTURE OF LIBRARIANSHIP DEPENDS ON IT!!!)
Flag all your outgoing email messages with subject lines expressing the importance and urgency of their content through liberal use of capital letters, hyperbole, and exclamation points. Be consistent with your urgency so that everyone will know the importance of everything you do.
Monday, September 11, 2006
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i have given up yelling and resigned myself to the fact that no matter how important i make the subject line look, no matter how much i beg and plead in it, faculty is NOT GOING TO READ PAST THE SECOND LINE OF THE EMAIL...
Wait, you mean faculty even bother to open your emails? How do you get them to do that?
Or if you work at an institution like mine, you don't have to worry about anyone seeing them, let alone reading them, because the network email spam filter flags anything with excessive capitalization and/or punctuation (especially the use of !!!!!!!!'s) and automatically deletes it. Thereby ridding the email world of the scourge of spam but also 'legitimate' email as well (although no one will read them anyway)
So yes, please, do follow J's advice on this one.
Posting messages to professional listservs with message lines in caps is just wonderful as well. I like to think of the spelling errors as a bonus.
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