Email difficulties

There are some people in this world that want to annoy you or make your life difficult. Thankfully they are easily recognized when they email you... here's my favourites:

1. Inline responses.

You write:

Hello there,
Just wondering if you are free for dinner on Saturday -- what would you like to do? Dinner? Movie? Skating?

Also I'm wondering if you're still in contact with what'ser name from school? The blonde with the big teeth? I need her phone number, if you've got it.
Sincerly and thanks, from me.

You get back what looks like the same message, yep the response part is blank and there is your sig at the bottom of the note:

To: you
From: me
Date: sometime
Subject: RE:plans






---- original message -----
From: me
To: you
Date: before the second message
Subject: plans

Hello there,
Just wondering if you are free for dinner on Saturday OK -- what would you like to do? Dinner? OK Movie? Good Skating?

Also I'm wondering if you're still in contact with what'ser name from school? The blonde with the big teeth? I need her phone number, if you've got it. OK
Sincerly and thanks, from me.

2. People who forward jokes. Urban legends. Etc.

Generally this group can be annoying or not at all annoying. They are only not annoying if they're sending you something new.

These things annoy me:

• if they're forwarding you something that everyone has already seen several times since the dawn of internet time, or that you sent THEM and they just didn't even notice where it came from in their excitement to pass it on.


• if they're sending you a story and the subject is all in caps which says THIS IS REALLY TRUE!!! without realising that 100 exclamation points does not make it true


• They send you an email that says: Note forwarded message attached. And you have to go and open someone else's message(s)


• Anything in powerpoint


• Anything with midi music


• Anything with cheesy prayers or dancing emoticons or floaty-cloud or rose pictures


• Anything with a background, notepaper or Comic Sans MS font


• Anything that says something special will happen if you forward it to 10 of your friends


• Anything that says something bad will happen if you don't forward it within 10 minutes to all of your friends

3. Forwards with hundreds of email addresses to scroll through.

4. Or ------ original message ------
upon ------ original message ------
to scroll past before you get to the cheesy forwarded prayer with a rose that blooms, fades, and all the petals fall off.