The following Dodgers have been smited by the JDK for their crimes against Jam:
All the girls! for picking on the JDK and damaging his already delicate self esteem!
The Basserd Who Nicked Copper's Stuff For the offense of nicking Copper's stuff. You are a tw*t, whoever you are and we all hope you get run over by a tram in Nottingham. Or Liverpool. Or whereever else they have trams!
Copper For the crime of playing with her Wii instead of her Jammie pals!
So, I've just been forwarded a chain of about 20 lengthy e-mails by a project manager in 'preparation' for a meeting later today. When I indicated that I didn't want to read 20 pages of this drivel and that the information contained therein should have been summarised, preferably in bullet points before sending it to me, I was tutted at. Anyway, I have no intention of reading it prior to the meeting.
So anyway. Gist of the poll is... should you/do you summarise lengthy e-mail chains before forwarding them on to someone you want to do something for you?
Whenever I have to send someone a lot of information that I think is important that they fully read, I'll bullet point it. Just because I know that when pressed for time and faced with a long paragraph or paragraphs, I tend to just gloss over it to get the jist.
So you and I are in agreement.
I think that this should also be done when sending on stupid forwards from your mates. I do not need to see the entire chain of people that every got this email. If I deem one of those things suitable to send, not only do I strip out everything but the actual content of the email, I BCC whoever I'm sending it to. Nice and clean and no one's email addy's are given out to the world.
