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\u00a0 <\/span>There are really more than three things that we can think of to not include in an email – but these three top the list in terms of frequency or severity. In no particular order, these are what you should not do in an email\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n Don’t type when you’re angry<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Typing while you’re still angry is no different than having an argument where the other person is not talking back – it’s not going to end well.\u00a0 <\/span>Usually it’s best to cool off first\u2026get a bite to eat or just wait 24 hours before you allow yourself to respond and when you come back, you can present a clear and logical presentation of your view.<\/p>\n Don’t gossip about co-workers<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>This rule could really be generalized to something like “Don’t put anything in email that you wouldn’t want your priest\/rabbi\/cleric to read.”\u00a0 <\/span>In other words, stay away from non business matters because you don’t know who is reading your emails (besides your recipients) in an office environment.<\/p>\n Don’t put anything you don’t want to become public<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Ask yourself this question before hitting send:\u00a0 <\/span>What if everyone were to read this?\u00a0 <\/span>Would it spell legal or moral issues?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>If you have any doubts, it takes just a few seconds to pick up the phone or go have a face to face meeting with someone.<\/p>\n \u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0 <\/span>As an aside, our Safeguard Send tool can be used to catch some of these occurrences by looking for, and flagging you when, phrases like these appear in the email: “I am so pissed at”, or “I probably shouldn’t be telling you this but”, or “Are we even allowed to do this?”.\u00a0 <\/span>Find out more about Safeguard Send at http:\/\/www.SperrySoftware.com\/Outlook\/Safeguard-Send.asp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 There are really more than three things that we can think of to not include in an email…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sperrysoftware.com\/Email-Tools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}