Urgent (red) emails - do you give them low priority?

[randal]

If you send an "urgent" mail to more people than you can call/visit then its clearly not urgent.

Fair comment, totally agree.

Generally the "urgent" brigade always seem to be the ones you seldom meet, or speak to on the phone. I imagine them as just sitting there at their desk just sending out mails with no real interaction with anyone apart from their mail recipients.

 

[Hades]

If it's urgent then I pick up the phone, and I expect others to do the same. An email flag means nothing.

And for people who always add a read receipt I simply click 'no' when asked - hopefully it annoys the hell out of them.

 

[Tefal]

One of my colleagues punches his desk with rage if he receives an email with an exclamation mark through Lotus Notes.

I would send him so much spam marked with ! he'd need a new desk

 

[meghatronic]

All receipts get cancelled, but if it's marked as urgent on my work e-mail - it usually is.

Although, our mail server uses grey listing (retards), so marking it as urgent seems to hurry-it-up a bit.

Two more questions:

1) Do you have to read/mark as read every e-mail? People in work have hundreds of unread things in their inbox. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
2) Do you delete e-mails, or are you a hoarder?

 

[markk]

To be honest I don't even notice the !, so they get treated the same as the others.

1) Do you have to read/mark as read every e-mail? People in work have hundreds of unread things in their inbox. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night.
2) Do you delete e-mails, or are you a hoarder?

1) Yes, inbox gets sorted into folders everyday. I hate too many emails in my inbox.

2) Delete most, but archive ones between myself and clients. I get the same clients every year so it's handy to see what happened the previous year.

 

[Westyfield2]

Emails with poor spelling / punctuation / grammar go right to be bottom of my list, as do overly long and waffling emails.