Sounds like SSW rules to better email http://sharepoint.ssw.com.au/Standards/Communication/RulesToBetterEmail/Pages/SendTasksOneEmailAtATime.aspx But you can not make a 100% rule! It depends on the work style of the person you are sending the email to. If there is more than two items, start with... Hi Fred, There are two things I need from you 1 - X 2 - Y
Generalisation: I find that clients like everything summed up into one email, developers like single tasks, either as a list of tasks in one email or a stack of single emails On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 8:41 AM, David Richards < [email protected]> wrote: > Greetings all, > > Has anyone else noticed people often don't answer more than one > question in an email? In fact, I'll generalise that and say people > often don't read an entire email. I had this today (already) but this > happens to me "all the time" (it's probably more like 25% of the time > but I think the exaggeration is justified). > > This is particularly annoying when the main question isn't the first > one (such as today's incident). eg, "Please tell me A and B but I > really want to know about C" will usually just get me the answer to A. > > I don't want to have to "twitterize" my emails into single sentences > of a few small words. > > I wonder how many people on this list didn't get past the first sentence :) > > David > > "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes > will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" > -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama >
