Geek Guidance: when to use reply-all

Never.

Seriously. Just don't ever use reply-all. It's poor form, poor performance and could lead you to the poorhouse when you are fired from your gig from using reply-all to send a snarky comment.

I witnessed a very unfortunate case of reply-all today, and then happened to stumble upon a Timeback Management blog post tonight about how Nielsen recently deleted the reply-all feature on the computers of every one of their 35,000 employees.

I would give ANYTHING if this anti-reply-all button action were a default setting on Outlook and Gmail.

But alas, the vast majority of us continue to be forced to have our inboxes clogged up with comments from the peanut gallery, "thank you!'s" aimed solely at the sender, and bucking authority via "funny" clipart.

(sigh)

Is it just me? Am I the only one who hates reply-all? On that note: do you have any funny/sad reply-all stories of your own? Share in the comments!