A Real Humble Apology To Some Of My Friends
By pyewacket
@pyewacket (43903)
United States
December 16, 2008 4:59am CST
Every once in awhile I contact a good number of my friends via mass email...If I were to email everyone individually it would take me forever. But once in awhile too, someone...uh, not to mention who....
makes a reply..supposedly only to me..but instead of replying to sender (meaning me) must do a reply to all of my contacts. Uh, then I get emails from my friends asking me why are they getting this response.
So folks, my friends here, I apologize for this...like I said to email every single one of my friends individually would take a long time...thus my mass emails sometimes to people..
Can you forgive me??? Don't mean for you to get a response intended for me back as a reply when the person did a reply to everyone thing..sorry
Have you ever had this happen? Let's face it sometimes we're pressed for time and the only way to contact our friends about some issue is to do a mass email.. Are you guilty of this too?
makes a reply..supposedly only to me..but instead of replying to sender (meaning me) must do a reply to all of my contacts. Uh, then I get emails from my friends asking me why are they getting this response.
So folks, my friends here, I apologize for this...like I said to email every single one of my friends individually would take a long time...thus my mass emails sometimes to people..
Can you forgive me??? Don't mean for you to get a response intended for me back as a reply when the person did a reply to everyone thing..sorry Have you ever had this happen? Let's face it sometimes we're pressed for time and the only way to contact our friends about some issue is to do a mass email.. Are you guilty of this too?5 people like this
13 responses
@jerzgirl (9384)
• United States
16 Dec 08
Yes, I've done the reply all, but I now BCC everyone I send to so that no one can reply all and have it bother anyone. I've had people block me simply because I responded to a mass email with a mass response, but they didn't know who I was. So, the simplest thing is to BCC everyone on your list.
@KrazyKlingon (5005)
• United States
16 Dec 08
In this case, mine was an accident, but at least it was not meant for the email sender's eyes & mine only. Hopefully, you got a laugh too. In this case, it was quite informative. 
2 people like this
@saigonwarrior (1331)
• United States
16 Dec 08
Yep, I use BCC every time I send to more than one person.
I don't like others having my email address unless I freely
give it out, and I give the same courtesy to others that have
trustingly given me theirs.
1 person likes this
@AmbiePam (121258)
• United States
16 Dec 08
I've gotten some e-mails before and I feel bad for the person who replied. They obviously didn't know they were replying to everyone that had gotten the original e-mail. But that has happened several times that stemmed from a variety of e-mails from different people. I feel sorry for the ones who wrote something I know they didn't mean for anyone else to see!
1 person likes this
@Katlady2 (9904)
• United States
16 Dec 08
I've had that happen with one of my other online friends too where one of the friends will do a "reply to all" when it should have just been to her instead. It doesn't bother me though. Confuse me.....yes. But not bother. LOL! I haven't done that myself. But there's always a first time.
@saigonwarrior (1331)
• United States
16 Dec 08
I have a friend that works in a busy dental office.
She sends mass emails to family and friends, which to
me is no problem.
Sometimes one of her family members will reply to her
and we all receive the email..lol.
It is actually very interesting to read, it doesn't bother me
a bit.
Once I read who they are actually replying to, I realize why
the email came to me and it is never anything really personal.
Just grandkids baby pictures, etc.
1 person likes this
@4mymak (1793)
• Malaysia
17 Dec 08
i do get that sometimes.. replies from 'others/strangers' intended to 'a friend'..
that is why i make it a habit to send whatever emails - putting the address in 'bcc' whenever i send whatever emails to friends - individually, or by mass.
i only use the 'To' or 'Copy to' for my 'formal' or 'business' emails.
it is also because most of my friends email me from work (using their office email), therefore, they dont really appreciate to see all my contacts including their own address listed up, if ever i send out a mass email - some of them already advised me to use 'bcc' even when i send out mass email.. that way, the email still goes to all the people i need to sent it out to, but the reciepients dont see anyone's name or address in my mail, and surely they only reply to me alone instead of to all the other 'undisclosed reciepients'...
@SaintAnne (5453)
• United States
17 Dec 08
I've had this happened to me several times. I have a friend who likes to BCC or CC reply and of course, she does not delete my previous entry so there are times that my email that is not supposed to be read by this person is of course, sent to that person. Now I am more vigilant in reminding people not to do this to me as I am guilty of mass mailings as I don't like to repeat what happened to me lately over and over and over again.
@scarlet_woman (23463)
• United States
16 Dec 08
i don't mind pye-i know most of the people on the mass email anyway.
no biggie.
@joyceshookery (2057)
• United States
16 Dec 08
Here's a hint, dear Pye -- Send your mass emails via bcc, then only the one person you're sending to will be visible. The others will be "undisclosed recipients." Hopefully that will work, even if your responder says "reply to all."
@tamarafireheart (15384)
•
16 Dec 08
Hi pye,
I don't have so many friends so I haven't done that at all, but if don't send an e-mail, I normally ring them.
Bright Blessings.
Tamara
@catdla1 (6005)
• United States
16 Dec 08
This used to happen to me once in a while. I don't see anything wrong with mass mailing of newletter-type emails. Anything of a personal nature I would send in a seperate email, of course. I have both sent them and receive them. I put a stop to 'mass responses' by sending the email to myself, and then to everyone else as a 'blind carbon copy' or BCC. This way no one sees who else is getting it. All the recipient sees is an email that I sent to myself.
@savak03 (6684)
• United States
16 Dec 08
I don't think I've ever done that but I have been the recipient of someone who has. I used to work for a company that would mass mail all the merchandisers with a list of their work for the week. Everybody's work was on the email. You just had to look for your name and see what was your work was then reply that you got it. One of the newer merchandisers must have hit the reply all button and everyone in three states knew that he had his list.
