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First, I hate unneeded thank you email, when the previous email warrant no response.
Its 2018, I can understand back even only 10 years ago that the reliability that an email was sent to the wrong person or caught in spam maybe. Is that still a concern today?
Even worse, when it from work colleagues in the same room.
"Here are the reports for Jan." < me: no thank you needed. that is my job.
"Can you run of the numbers for Jan" // "Here, attached." < no thank you needed.
Outlook, i know how it was sent to.
If they complain, I have sent items to show it was sent to them.
Additionaly, this is with a group of developers. Why are you wasting my time with a meaningless email. Say thanks in person next we walk past, when I am not trying to focus of coding.
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Generic politeness. Some of us were brought up to say "please" and "thank you" at every opportunity.
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In the corporate world, and especially between business units, it can be like 100-200 thank you emails a day, if you thanked everyone - clutters the process. 
-- rants are the vehicle of the lazy and uninspired - JSOP 2/2018
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Slacker007 wrote: clutters the process
Yeah, well. If Jan would get his own elephanting reports and run his own elephanting numbers, it would de-clutter the process even more. 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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I have to reply thanks for that. I has lifted my mood immensely.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Generic politeness. Some of us were brought up to say "please" and "thank you" at every opportunity.
Thank you for clarifying that! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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You're welcome!
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Quite right.
And I would think it depends on the medium of the conversation so far. If conducted entirely in email, it seems appropriate to me to apply thanks that way too. I see no need to dispense with common courtesy.
Problem I see in the Corporate world is that communication seems to be handed almost entirely by email. That's what some people do all day, just write emails. Apparently, you can get well paid doing so too.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Try to be the responsible for the production in a plant in another country with a different time zone and keep it running without email
20% to 30% of my day time goes in Email (coordinating things, asking for info, reading that info...)
aprox 40% of my time programming / debugging / solving issues
20% of my time in meeting (some regular basis, others on the need)
and the rest... getting though previous ToDos that were relegated due to higher prio things (with some jumps to CP like this one to give my brain a tiny rest between points)
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I will send out a thank you email when it is warranted. People need emails in the inbox, like they need another hole in the head. No bueno.
-- rants are the vehicle of the lazy and uninspired - JSOP 2/2018
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Politeness.
"Please send me version 1.0.b" / I send / "Thank you". -> I know he received and considered the e-mail.
"Please send me version 1.0.b" / I send / ... -> Did he receive it? Is he ok with what I sent? Did he even care if I sent him what he asked or not? (Hint: more often than not he didn't).
Besides if I send X to someone and he answers "thank you" he can't 6 months from now tell me "You didn't send me / I didn't receive it".
It's important, especially in asynchronous communication. E-mail is still unreliable by the way, SMTP is still the same and the spam filters or rules go bonker more often than not.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
modified 15-Feb-18 6:01am.
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den2k88 wrote: oliteness.
"Please send me version 1.0.b" / I send / "Thank you". -> I know he reveived and considered the e-amil-
"Please send me version 1.0.b" / I send / ... -> Did he receive it? Is he ok with what I sent? Did he even care if I sent him what he asked or not? (Hint: more often than not he didn't).
Besides if I send X to someone and he answers "thank you" he can't 6 months from now tell me "You didn't send me / I didn't receive it".
Damm right.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Ok I edited just the typos as it looked like a drunken baboon wrote it (I'm sober).
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Yup.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I know - Saw the picture from your company...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Nahh... we use this[^] 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I've no problem with them at all, good manners are a good thing and it's often important to know that the original message was read.
The thing that drives me mad with email is people copying in all and sundry on a message.
To: All Facilities; All Secretaries; All IT Support; All Development; All Operations; All Marketing; All Sales; All Compliance; Reception;
From: A. Berk
Subject: Coffee Machine
Message: The coffee machine on the third floor is making a funny noise.
This will inevitably land every victim with any number of subsequent messages - far more problematic than a single "thank you" mail!
It would be rather nice if Outlook had a "Remove me from this mail chain" option. Especially if it sent a reply to the originator each time a user employed it:
To: A. Berk
From: Mail Administrator
Subject: Coffee Machine
Message: Fred Bloggs has indicated that this email has nothing whatsoever to do with him and has removed himself from the recipients list. If you are seeing a lot of these messages, you might consider engaging your brain before sending an email to several hundred people.
Thank you.
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In that situation simple ReplyToAll;
"unsubscribe sh*t thread"
Hopefully they get the message 
Though if your office is full of millennials they won't get the reference. And will report you to HR for discrimination against sh*t threads.
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F-ES Sitecore wrote: Though if your office is full of millennials they won't get the reference.
I'm an old git and I'm not getting the reference!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Before the web took off and forums were everywhere, people used mailing lists. You would subscribe to a list and when you emailed the address of the list everyone on the list got a copy, and that is how people help grouped discussions. Most list services ran multiple lists so if you wanted to subscribe from a particular list you would email a specifically formatted message like
"unsubscribe asp.net"
and the list server would remove you from the "asp.net" discussion list.
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The coinsurer is about to define itself(9)
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Recurse!
about re
???:( curse
define itself recurse
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Nice try, but a little short...
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Recursion (see explanation)
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Whattt! I read (7)!
Clearly it is (9)!
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