[ale] oops - mea culpa - Re: mass email for school and school web site

[Scott Castaline]

On 07/14/2009 02:33 PM, Robert Reese wrote:
> Hello Brian,
>
> Thank you very kindly for your encouraging words and sentiments.
>
> I've a bad habit of not paying attention to the sent date of a message, and sometimes I sort my inbox differently than the default and forget to change it back.  I also keep virtually every email I receive, so there are literally tens of hundreds in the ALE inbox alone and many more in the archives.
>
I admit I'm guilty as sin for the same. My ALE folder along with a few 
others is the majority of disk space that the rest of my home folder 
takes. I tend to not use the delete key as much as I probably should. 
Also, I too have done the same almost responding to an older email by 
mistake. I just chalk it up as "Stupid Email Tricks" similar to 
Letterman's bit on Late Night going by a similar name, can't think of it 
right now, on the tip of my tongue, kinda escapes me right now.......

> It sets me up for the Trifecta stupid user trick of replying to an old email.
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> It might not have been so embarrassing if I hadn't done something similar a year or so ago with a message several months old AND off-topic.  At least it was an amusing and interesting thread which gained a renewed albeit short life again.
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> I am very gratified this time that the thread was on topic and even moreso that folks on this list have, and hopefully will continue to, find it useful.
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> And I am most grateful for your message.  I *never* top-post, but this is a special occasion where it just didn't seem enough to post inline or bottom post where it might be missed.
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> Robert~
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