Back when I was taking Chem 201 there was a lot of nervous freshmen and sophomores in the class. I was a junior, and I was rather knowledgable about chemistry, so I didn't worry. Furthermore, these nervous freshmen would miss classes constantly, and in their despair, they would send out emails to the class all the time, begging for help, for notes, for clarification, for anything, really. I found this rather annoying. This went on for most of the semester, and my frustration at people missing classes and wanting help/handouts was building.
One day I decided to type a message and Reply to Everyone in the class. My message was short and simple.
Did you all see our professor lick the chalkboard today?
Of course, this was completely made up, but I thought it was rather funny. One or two people replied to me, curious and wondering about it, but I didn't reply back.
The point of this post: when replying to an email, make sure it's directed at who you intend and not at everybody. Everything is much better this way.
