• BigPotato@lemmy.world
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    I like the idea - I don’t want to send you an email back, here’s a thumbs up to show I’ve received it.

    I hate the execution because I get an email telling me you reacted to my email.

    • dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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      If it isn’t the first email you’ve ever exchanged, why can’t you just plan for the fact that they got your email and if they drop the ball the fault is not yours?

      “I’m sending you this thing, if anything is wrong please let me know; otherwise I will assume all is agreed and we can move forward.”

      No response required. Stay off my lawn, don’t send me an email or a text or anything else that just says “ok”. Maybe I’m showing my age…

      • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        Reactions like this work in closed ecosystems (Whatsapp / Facebook) where everyone is on the same client or via open standards that is baked into the spec of the protocol. E-Mail has neither of these, which is why it’s so egregious that a whole email is being sent with 4-16 bytes of actual content itself.

        • nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world
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          Internet Standards.

          The things MS tried to extend-and-extinguish the Web when it was just barely born. Remember campaigns “best in any browser” ?

          We almost didn’t have an open Internet.

          Fuck you specifically, MicroSoft

    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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      our secretary uses a meme to end her daily attendance email, so I give her a laughing face when its a good one. She started it on an email I made a joke in. So I just recipicate it. I also like the thumbs up on emails that are FYI type things