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In Game Mail - allow "reply all" to be disabled per message
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Billy Antollarenti
Ascendance
Goonswarm Federation
#1 - 2017-06-25 22:04:32 UTC
Especially for corp / alliance mail from directors, either allow the sender (if a director maybe?) to opt to disable Reply All (for recipients) would prevent most of the mail I get, and reduce the need for directors so send 1-line emails with 10-line threats about not hitting Reply All.

Another version, make Reply the default and Reply All hard to find.
Dark Lord Trump
Infinite Point
Pandemic Horde
#2 - 2017-06-25 23:15:50 UTC
The only thing worse than all the corp mail your wretched ilk sends is the people who respond to it with Reply All. +1.

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Axure Abbacus
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#3 - 2017-06-25 23:48:45 UTC
+1

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grgjegb gergerg
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#4 - 2017-06-26 00:27:56 UTC
Many yes. I've run into this.
Cade Windstalker
#5 - 2017-06-26 01:38:11 UTC
It kinda sounds like what you want is an ability to send mails with no reply option at all. Like, a Corp or Alliance mail that goes to Notifications instead of Mail.

That would both be simpler to implement and prevent the inevitable problems with allowing a third party to dictate how a portion of your UI works.
Donnachadh
United Allegiance of Undesirables
#6 - 2017-06-26 13:59:25 UTC
-1
The game and all of the features in it are there for us to use and you do not have the right to limit how another player chooses to use those features, and yet that is exactly what this idea does.

Yes I do have a substantial amount of email to go through daily the 4 active members of the corp this character is in can generate more than 50 emails a day and most of those are improper use of the reply all function so I do have some experience with this problem. From that I can imagine what the email hassles are for someone in a group that is ten times our size, but that changes nothing. If you do not want the hassles associated with all the emails then resign your position, or better yet publish standards and expectations on how members should respond and then deal with the offenders individually. And yes I have some experience with this as well, it comes along with managing a business in real life.

Cade Windstalker wrote:
It kinda sounds like what you want is an ability to send mails with no reply option at all. Like, a Corp or Alliance mail that goes to Notifications instead of Mail.

That would both be simpler to implement and prevent the inevitable problems with allowing a third party to dictate how a portion of your UI works.

My general thoughts as well.
I would say that what we really need is a notification system with the ability to determine if a notification goes to corp only or corp and alliance, a system that is separate from the email and the current notification system. It would be nice if this system could auto generate a simply replay to the email of a selected character or characters so we had a way of tracking who in the group has at least opened the notification.