Go ahead. Hit “Reply All.”

OK, I do it sometimes too.  If a group of friends  is having an email exchange for fun, I DO want everyone to get my witticisms.  And sometimes a “reply all” response is even requested if people are choosing a dinner date through process of elimination.

Probably the people who should read this will not be reading my blog because they are not computer literate but rather they struggle to use email.  I am retired and my retiree friends are up there in age but not always up with technology.

 By all means hit “reply all” if your reply is relevant to the entire group, i.e. need-to-know information for car pools.  My beef is with the people who hit “reply all” when only the sender needs to know their replies.  Do I want to know that one of the 75 members of my golf league won’t be attending the awards banquet?  Delete.  Do I need to know which members of any group are attending the next meeting when I’m not the hostess?  Delete.  Must I be aware that a group member forgot the date or time of an event?  Delete.  When you hit “reply all” and send a message to a distribution list, you are creating a lot of unnecessary spam.

So, think about it.  Who should receive your reply?  Not I.