Do you use email tagging / @-mentioning?

[Smiggles]

Do you use @*insert email address here* to notify someone of something you need or do you just use CC and BCC?
Personally I don't recall ever using it.

 

[ISP cash cow]

Yes, use it when speaking to a large group of people and need to make one person aware of a specific task or notification

 

[howardb]

Yes, use it when speaking to a large group of people and need to make one person aware of a specific task or notification

This ^

 

[FiestaST]

Blue moon for me.

 

[Gabe Owner]

Guilty. Only when writing to groups of heathens.

 

[OnlyOneKenobi]

Do you use @*insert email address here* to notify someone of something you need or do you just use CC and BCC?
Personally I don't recall ever using it.

Not really, but I do unto others when they do unto me.

 

[duckgray]

This

Yes, use it when speaking to a large group of people and need to make one person aware of a specific task or notification

 

[My_King]

Yes, especially people with special names.

Just ensures no spelling errors.

The other reason is you have to be specific with varsity idiots. Else "management" tells you, you were not specific enough.

@JannieDoos Jy moet die ding doen, moet klaar wees Vrydag en as jy nie iets verstaan nie laat weet my vroegtydig.

 

[Nerfherder]

yes, because so many email communications are general and get glossed over.

Often you just need to call a specific thing to a specific person.
Its not even hostile, it helps be more direct.

Come @ me bro !

 

[Nerfherder]

Yes, especially people with special names.

Just ensures no spelling errors.

Ohhh that's clever, I didn't even think of that.

The other reason is you have to be specific with varsity idiots. Else "management" tells you, you were not specific enough.

@JannieDoos Jy moet die ding doen, moet klaar wees Vrydag en as jy nie iets verstaan nie laat weet my vroegtydig.

Yup - keeps us both honest and often it really helps.

 

[SeRpEnT]

Person who voted No probably also preferred snailmail over emails back in the day...

 

[ToxicBunny]

Yeah if you need to make someone in a group aware of an item/task.

Also, it can be easy to use to add a person to a mail trail as well, as well as make everyone else aware that they were added.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Don't use email at all, but yes in Slack obviously.

 

[bwana]

No, never been necessary for me to.

 

[Cray]

Yeah if you need to make someone in a group aware of an item/task.

Also, it can be easy to use to add a person to a mail trail as well, as well as make everyone else aware that they were added.

This, in bigger companies the e-mail CC list gets hectic. You can greet by "Hi All" but tagging people for specific requests helps draw attention to the things that they need to do.

I find if you don't tag people, everyone just sits back and waits for other people to do things.

 

[RedViking]

You mean like this ?

@Smiggles

 

[Bewlen]

This, in bigger companies the e-mail CC list gets hectic. You can greet by "Hi All" but tagging people for specific requests helps draw attention to the things that they need to do.

I find if you don't tag people, everyone just sits back and waits for other people to do things.

^^^ This. All of this. The entirety of this. Just, **THIS**, ffs.

I will tag the everloving shaiyte out of you.

 

[Craig_]

yes, because so many email communications are general and get glossed over.

Often you just need to call a specific thing to a specific person.
Its not even hostile, it helps be more direct.

Come @ me bro !

This^, it's very to easy to miss something important amongst the multitude of garbage emails all day. Don't see it could be seen as hostile?

 

[NarrowBandFtw]

been doing it long before email clients handled it properly

when you've got multiple people in an email trail and need to address specific points to one person and other points to another it's just normal to go @MinionOne do this, @MinionTwo do that

if it's a 1-to-1 email with only one sender and one recipient then there is no point

 

[Nerfherder]

This^, it's very to easy to miss something important amongst the multitude of garbage emails all day. Don't see it could be seen as hostile?

Hostile ?

Like when someone emails the entire organisation and calls out a single individual with an @.

Mostly when the email could have been a direct message.

I have seen some stuff in my life