Please Note: This update is part of a series, The Seven Deadly Sins of Email, written by Squeezebox. This update includes the 3rd instalment (of seven).

If this sin wasn’t being committed all the time, there wouldn’t be a Deadly Sin #2. If you send messages with all of the addresses just added into either the ‘To’ field or the ‘CC’ field, you are sharing those addresses with everybody you send it to. This is the worst email sin of all!

We’ve all been on the receiving end of those jokes and fun type emails, and it’s fine to forward them to your friends and other contacts. But do they really need all the address headers that came with it?

Please Note: This update is part of a series, The Seven Deadly Sins of Email, written by Squeezebox. This update includes the 6th instalment (of seven).

Maybe most people have broadband now, and maybe they can download larger files. BUT, large attachments clog up the system (email downloads don’t transfer at broadband speeds) and fill up hard drives. Many people still have dial-up or maybe a capped broadband service. They aren’t going to thank you for that nice 4mb picture you sent them that took twenty minutes to download!

Please Note: This update is part of a series, The Seven Deadly Sins of Email, written by Squeezebox. This update includes the 7th installment (of seven).

Not everyone has the full Microsoft Office, nor does everyone have Works. I suppose that most of my contacts have Word installed, but not all have Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher (the right version) and Access. How frustrating for someone to spend ages downloading that huge file you sent them, only to find out that they can’t even open it!