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The Worst Email Habits and Annoyances to Avoid (or At Least Be Aware of)

The Worst Email Habits and Annoyances to Avoid (or At Least Be Aware of)

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Email signatures may be more annoying than you think, but we all experience far more blunders, annoyances, and misses in our inboxes. We asked our savvy readers to share their biggest email pet peeves, and here’s what they said.

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Please note: It is impossible to make hard and fast rules about email etiquette, and in some cases you may completely disagree with the sentiment expressed. However, it is at least worth knowing that some people may be irritated by such behavior.

Does keeping an automatic “Sent from my iPhone/iPad/BlackBerry/Mobile” signature on your emails that you type on your device provide useful information about the context of your message? Or does it simply imply that you’re too busy to properly respond to someone’s thoughts?

Many respondents had an instinctive aversion to "Sent from Me." Paul Duke summed up much of the sentiment this way: