Replaces a lot of useless typing I had to do to sound polite when saying “fine, no further comment”. And then getting a notification from the other party acknowledging my acknowledgment… yuck.
Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
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Re: Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
#12I kind of get why we don’t like this in email, but for SMS and Slack I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reactions. They’re a way to say “I received this and have a positive reaction to it, with no further communication necessary”. Replaces a lot of useless typing I had to do to sound polite when saying “fine, no further comment”. And then getting a notification from the other party acknowledging my acknowledgment… yuck.
Re: Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
#13I kind of get why we don’t like this in email, but for SMS and Slack I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reactions. They’re a way to say “I received this and have a positive reaction to it, with no further communication necessary”. Replaces a lot of useless typing I had to do to sound polite when saying “fine, no further comment”. And then getting a notification from the other party acknowledging my acknowledgment… yuck.
I would love to disable that on my client. I never want to see reactions.
Re: Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
The UX problem is you send an e-mail, and someone "thumbs up" a response, and then you block the response and assume that they didn't care to respond, while they think they have responded.
The distance between "didn't care to respond" and a thumbs up emoji response is measured in angstroms.
Re: Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
#15The reaction email doesn't have some specific header that can be used to block it?
The UX problem is you send an e-mail, and someone "thumbs up" a response, and then you block the response and assume that they didn't care to respond, while they think they have responded.
Re: Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
#16I kind of get why we don’t like this in email, but for SMS and Slack I’ve thoroughly enjoyed reactions. They’re a way to say “I received this and have a positive reaction to it, with no further communication necessary”. Replaces a lot of useless typing I had to do to sound polite when saying “fine, no further comment”. And then getting a notification from the other party acknowledging my acknowledgment… yuck.
I would love to disable that on my client. I never want to see reactions.
Re: Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
The UX problem is you send an e-mail, and someone "thumbs up" a response, and then you block the response and assume that they didn't care to respond, while they think they have responded.
The distance between "didn't care to respond" and a thumbs up emoji response is measured in angstroms.
Re: Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
#18Oh, this is good to know! I haven't encountered this issue personally yet, but maybe once I've updated my mailserver, I won't encounter it in the future. Now to figure out how to stop the same thing happening in SMS.
Re: Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
The UX problem is you send an e-mail, and someone "thumbs up" a response, and then you block the response and assume that they didn't care to respond, while they think they have responded.
The distance between "didn't care to respond" and a thumbs up emoji response is measured in angstroms.