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<pubDate>Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:33:00 PST</pubDate>
<title>Companies Disabling 'Reply-All' Button, Rather Than Dealing With Inane Email Threads</title>
<dc:creator>Mike Masnick</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[ Last month, the US State Department made plenty of news for threatening to <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090112/0119383358.shtml">punish</a> employees who misused the "reply-all" button on their email clients.  That, by itself, seemed a bit extreme, but <a href="http://www.loosewireblog.com/2009/02/the-end-of-the-reply-all-button.html">Jeremy Wagstaff</a> alerts us to the fact that some organizations are going a step further and figuring out ways to <a href="http://www.foliomag.com/2009/nielsen-disable-employees-reply-all-e-mail-functionality" target="_new">disable the reply-all button entirely</a>.  The latest to do so is Nielsen, which did so with a cheery memo to staff explaining why this would "reduce non-essential messages in mailboxes, freeing up our time as well as server space."  That's one way to think about it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090202/0147123599.shtml">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090202/0147123599.shtml#comments">Comments</a> | <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090202/0147123599.shtml?op=sharethis">Email This Story</a><br />
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