Thursday, July 22, 2004
Group e-Mails
Some times ago, some of my school classmates commenced organizing a reunion. It must be exciting to meet up with your old classmates after not seeing each other for so many years. So they compiled a list of e-mails and sent out group e-mails detailing the progress and suggestions for the events. Somehow, they have picked up my office e-mail address from my business card. Since then I have been receiving all these group e-mails directed to more than a hundred e-mail addresses. As the organizing of the event progressed, more and more of such group e-mail are clocking up my office e-mail accounts. Some of the e-mail also included exe files as an add-on spice to the e-mail conversation.
Somehow, these group e-mails were intercepted by Mail Sweeper installed by my office IT section. The software regards these group e-mails as spams and either delay in sending them to my inbox or deleted automatically. At the end, I have to advice my classmates to use my Yahoo e-mail address instead of my office e-mail address.
I believe many offices have installed some kind of software to check on group e-mails or bulk mails. If this is the case, and very likely too, many of our classmates are missing out on the group e-mails, perhaps without realizing.
From my experience with using the Yahoo Group, I have found that the Yahoo Group function available freely can be more suitable for such communication with a large group of people. Messages posted on the Yahoo Group can be viewed on the group web site or received as individual e-mail rather as a group or bulk mail. The Yahoo Group also comes with options for one to choose from no e-mail to summary digest e-mail for the week. On top of that, it has facility to store files and photos to be viewed at any time. I do believe that this is a better platform for our communication compared to the group e-mail.
On my own initiatives, I have set up a group for this purpose. I do believe that one day, people will realize the benefit of and step forward and adapt to changes.
Somehow, these group e-mails were intercepted by Mail Sweeper installed by my office IT section. The software regards these group e-mails as spams and either delay in sending them to my inbox or deleted automatically. At the end, I have to advice my classmates to use my Yahoo e-mail address instead of my office e-mail address.
I believe many offices have installed some kind of software to check on group e-mails or bulk mails. If this is the case, and very likely too, many of our classmates are missing out on the group e-mails, perhaps without realizing.
From my experience with using the Yahoo Group, I have found that the Yahoo Group function available freely can be more suitable for such communication with a large group of people. Messages posted on the Yahoo Group can be viewed on the group web site or received as individual e-mail rather as a group or bulk mail. The Yahoo Group also comes with options for one to choose from no e-mail to summary digest e-mail for the week. On top of that, it has facility to store files and photos to be viewed at any time. I do believe that this is a better platform for our communication compared to the group e-mail.
On my own initiatives, I have set up a group for this purpose. I do believe that one day, people will realize the benefit of and step forward and adapt to changes.
