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[RANT]
Aaarrrghhhh,
My kids go to school, they have classmates, classmates have parents and those parents organize things like joint parties, driving to an event, presents for the teacher, …
So one parent takes initiative and sends a mail to everyone to organize something. Great, very nice, no problem there. But then it seems that every single parent of every single classmate feels the need to press "reply all" to send "thank you", "how nice is this", "you're amazing" type of messages  .
As if I give a f... damn!!
and of course, somehow the wrong email address is used, so you ask kindly to change it to something else, no, just press "reply all" again with some other useless message.
Stupid parents ! 
(had to get that of my chest, thank you for reading  )
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V. wrote: those parents organize things like joint parties
Are the joints for the kids or the parents? Either way, I didn't think that sort of thing was legal outside of Amsterdam. 
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- Homer
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Both, with any luck.
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Solution: allow your kids to grow up in ignorance with no peer-to-peer social skills, and home school them. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: with no peer-to-peer social skills
(every INTJ, introverted, frustrated-with-humanity software developer looks around at every other INTJ, introverted, frustrated-with-humanity software developer with a "you say that like it's a bad thing" look.)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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You can add INTPs to that. 
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Sounds awful, why did you ever hand your email over for something like that??
If there is a need for all parents to be able to talk to each other then why not just create a group on a social platform (e.g. Facebook) and post in there. Then people can respond/ignore as desired.
In fact, why has somebody not already created a "parent social platform" already? It's seems like an obvious thing.
Email is NOT suitable for multi-person conversations.
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musefan wrote: Email is NOT suitable for multi-person conversations.
Of course it is! That's why it has a "Reply all" feature!
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I am sure we all know the pain of fudging on extra features to try convince everyone the system does more than it was ever designed to do. 
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isn't social media just email with Reply All the only option?
was [very briefly] in a cycling group...
... lot's of:
- look at what I had for lunch today!!
- my neighbour had a baby!
- my cat is very fat, and shat on the mat!!!
social media free for 5 years now... not a single relapse.
still waiting for the sobriety chips to prove it, anyone know where to get them?
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With email it is too easy to lose content. If somebody replies to a "old" email then it splits the email chain and your suddenly following 2..4..8.. different conversations. Sure it's fine for a brief discussion if people only reply when they need to ("Thanks" is not one of those reasons).
With social media (depending on the platform) everyone sees the full SINGLE chain. You don't have to remember who/when a specific thing was said. Plus you often get extra features, like creating events. It's always easy to find the event details, just go to the event. You don't have to scroll a massive chain to find the date of the event in one email and the "new changed time and location" in another one.
Alan: "Party on Monday at 7PM at Bob's house"
10 people: "Cool. Great. I'll be there' [silly picture showing party excitement]"
Bob: "Change of plan. I won't be home for 7, new time is 8PM"
10 people: "Cool. Great. I'll be there' [silly picture showing party excitement]"
Chris: "Bob has lost his house. I am going to host the party at my place [insert new location]. Same time as mentioned before".
Me: "So... Tuesday at 5PM at Dave's house, or nah?"
I am not trying to promote social media, just trying to point out that they have a lot better functionality for this kind of thing than email does.
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lopatir wrote: social media free for 5 years now... not a single relapse.
still waiting for the sobriety chips to prove it
Sanity is reward enough.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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lopatir wrote: still waiting for the sobriety chips to prove it, anyone know where to get them?
Have you tried asking on FaceBook?
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This is a solution that will address the problem and likely reduce your email.
1) Click that REPLY ALL yourself
2) Tell everyone it's very rude and thoughtless to click REPLY ALL with their mindless small talk when only the original sender need be informed.
This should cut down on the REPLY ALL - possibly even omit the basic starting email for future mailings of this type (win/win => won). Other options are to teach them the glories of BCC:, but somehow I think this mob of FauxBook spawn really really want to REPLY ALL because they might get loved back!
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It's the same annoying thing with group chat. I think there are lots of people that just need attention.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
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Thank you for sharing this.... now where is the reply all button for this thread thingy 
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V. wrote: My kids
I think I've found your problem. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If you were evil, you could abuse the "reply all" feature, and do something like
Reply All: Jane, looking forward to seeing you Friday Night!
Reply All: Jim, Friday night's looking good, see you there
Reply All: Steve, Friday night! See you there
etc. Somebody might get a clue. then again, probably not 
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Considering the number of spam mails I routinely delete every day (most days it is 20-30 of them, but sometimes it is worse), handling those extra "reply to all" things doesn't add very much. Delete - delete - delete - ... That is only one more reason to hit Delete.
Those are easily identified. I am slightly more worried about those that I immediately classify as spam - but they are not. If I hadn't done that double-check of my Deleted Mail folder a week ago, discovering that one deleted message was in fact legit, I would tomorrow morning have been woken up by a guy from the power company out to check that my complete electric installation is according to regulations. (I am about to tear it all out, having it replaced, so we had the check postponed until that work is completed.)
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Bribery? Rot! (10)
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Corruption ?
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That lasted a load longer than I figured - but you are up tomorrow! 
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I actually did it about 9.30 - CP clock having an off day ?
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