I Am an E-mail Nazi

The e-mail message was straight-forward and to the point. It had a clear message — an invitation, no less — and lacked an enormous signature or draconian disclaimer. So what was wrong with it?

Well, for starters, it had one address in the "To:" field and fifteen more in the "Cc:" field. I think I'll keep this e-mail around in case I ever need to contact one of the distant friends of a friend. I've got their e-mail address after all.

'course, the bad news is that they now have mine, too.

Secondly, the body of the message contained 438 characters in one big, long line. Sure, my client wraps long lines. It would have to, because I don't know anyone who has a 438-character wide screen.

This is why I'm so glad that I use ezmlm.