gauda.de » Random http://www.gauda.de The work of Johannes Leers - a webworker from Siegen, Germany Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:04:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Please select an appropriate title when you write emails! http://www.gauda.de/random/please-select-an-appropriate-title-when-you-write-emails/ http://www.gauda.de/random/please-select-an-appropriate-title-when-you-write-emails/#comments Sat, 20 Sep 2008 19:07:54 +0000 Johannes Leers http://www.gauda.de/?p=42 More and more often I get emails from customers which just hit reply in their email-account to write me something. So far, so good. The problem is, that the contents don’t belong to all prior emails. That sucks and I will explain you why:
I am using Google Mail a.k.a. Gmail (not in Germany btw) which has the nice feature of threaded conversations. You’ll find a nice explanation about this killer-feature here, and shortening this: All emails of one subject, whether I send it or receive it, are one thread. There are no folders received emails and sent emails. So when somebody sends me an email by hitting reply I get this email in the appropriate thread because it has the same subject.
Please differ the subject of your emails, when you are writing something that belongs to a completely different subject!

Other subjects that give me headaches are something like this: “I thought…”, “Can you”, “Problem” or “Help!”. This isn’t new to anyone visiting internet-forums from time to time knowing what a netiquette is. It says, e.g. to select a good subject for your posts! This is the same for emailing! Write good subjects like this: “Problem with module x”, “Module y is to slow” or “Question regarding project z”

Please think about this the next time you email, thanks!

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My domain gauda.de was registered back in 2001 and was used for blogging about my personal belongings now and then. I’ll try to give it another chance to fill it with real interesting content now, haha!

It will be a technical blog to give you some random notes about my favourite interests like Ruby on Rails or Ubuntu. My second aim with this website is to train my english, so please don’t feel annoyed if you stuble upon errors! ;)

Perhaps you find something of interest!

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