Hi
On Tuesday 6 April 2010 at 7:48:40 AM, in
<mid:77267241.20100406164...@wai.com.au>, Ian A. White wrote:
> G'day MFPA,
> On Tuesday, April 6, 2010, at 11:03:31 AM, you (MFPA)
> wrote:
M>> Much more annoying to me are the ridiculous essays
M>> that some business people include
> Unfortunately they are required for legal reasons.
People often include far mare than they have to. In the UK, all that
is legally required on a business email that's not on a personal one
is:-
Business address and trading name.
If the email is an invoice, it must include the VAT registration
number (if applicable).
Sole traders must include their own name as well as the business
name (if different).
In the case of a partnership, the names of all partners must be
listed (or instructions where to view such a list).
For limited companies, company name, registration number, place of
registration, and registered office address.
> On many tenders
Of course, some companies have a policy of appending three screenfuls
of dross to their emails, and will require anybody contracting to them
to be just as wasteful and inconsiderate. (-;
> (ask the reader to consider the environment before printing)
I don't often see those, but for a long time I interpreted that to
mean the *immediate* environment; eg will somebody else get to the
printer first and see confidential information. It wasn't until I saw
one that mentioned un-necessary printing leading to destruction of
trees that the penny dropped.
> The problem is that many e-mail clients do not honour the sigdash
> and so it gets repeated.
And this is not helped by the *terrible* practice of top-posting.
> I know that these things are disliked in the same way
> as reading receipts. Unfortunately again, in business
> they are just part of it. You need to know if a message
> goes through.
A lot of people configure reading receipt requests to be automatically
sent or automatically ignored; either way, they are no longer an
annoyance to the recipient. I find reading receipts unreliable; if I
send a message to somebody on Saturday, I often get a receipt on
Saturday or Sunday (when the recipient definitely was not working) and
another on Monday. And then another notification a couple of weeks
later that the message was deleted without being read (which you often
know is a lie because you have received a reply in the meantime).
> I do use MSGTAG, but some block it and refuse to accept
> it.
I can understand why people use such things but don't like them
myself.
> Well, they have to respond to a reading receipt
> then or they have to acknowledge the intention to
> receive before they get anything otherwise they claim
> they never received anything when it comes time to pay.
Where I used to work, somebody we dealt with used to password-protect
most files they sent us and we had to ring for the password (or email,
and they rang us).
> There is a difference between business and personal
> e-mails.
Yes. And I anticipate a trouting soon as we've moved ever-so-slightly
off-topic for TBUDL (-:
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