Due to Poul-Henning Kamp, via Karl Fogel:
But let me suggest a few pop-up windows I would like to see mail-programs implement whenever people send or reply to email to the lists they want me to subscribe to:
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| Your email is about to be sent to several hundred thousand |
| people, who will have to spend at least 10 seconds reading |
| it before they can decide if it is interesting. At least |
| two man-weeks will be spent reading your email. Many of |
| the recipients will have to pay to download your email. |
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| Are you absolutely sure that your email is of sufficient |
| importance to bother all these people ? |
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| [YES] [REVISE] [CANCEL] |
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Okay, that one’s a little silly. But this suggestion deals with a problem even I (I know!) have had in the past:
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| Warning: You have not read all emails in this thread yet. |
| Somebody else may already have said what you are about to |
| say in your reply. Please read the entire thread before |
| replying to any email in it. |
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| [CANCEL] |
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