Stop Microsoft users sending 'reactions' to email by adding a postfix header

Post by Andrex » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 2:47 PM UTC

greggsy wrote: post #272

setopt wrote: post #190

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I’m not an Outlook user, and I really dislike the product. But I wish the feature that you can write say @joel to get someone’s attention in large email threads with too many on CC would have been adopted by more mail clients.

Something like an iMessage of mail. Surely there’s an RFC for that right?

Post by justusthane » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 2:47 PM UTC

bschwindHN wrote: post #164

xyst wrote: post #142

Apple added the same thing for iMessage/SMS. It worked as expected if the group message was all Apple users. But if you were the unfortunate person outside the ecosystem, you would get spammed with ‘{person} liked “{message}”’. In some cases, people would react to the reaction leading to some ridiculous chains of text.

I like how you word this in the past tense, it still happens to this day. I live outside the states but keep a google voice number and in my family's group chat I still get these all the time. I've mostly (miraculously) moved them to Signal, but they revert to their SMS ways occasionally.

Post by shermantanktop » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 2:52 PM UTC

shermantanktop wrote: post #284

gadders wrote: post #252

I don't have strong feelings about this, but can someone please change the emoji palette in Teams? I feel like I'm typing in Club Penguin chat.

I wonder if tech nostalgia has reached the point where someone has built a Club Penguin chat clone.

Post by raphman » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 2:54 PM UTC

Andrex wrote: post #281

greggsy wrote: post #272

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Something like an iMessage of mail. Surely there’s an RFC for that right?

I've always thought about just making a chat client app using email as the underlying standard. Strip out CSS and signatures (and funnel spam/marketing to a separate UI) and bam, you have possibly the most widely-interoperable chat client ever made. The ostensible "problem" with this would probably be "email is too slow for real-time chat!" But really, how much difference does a few seconds make? And modern connectio…

Post by blitzar » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 2:55 PM UTC

shermantanktop wrote: post #282

teeray wrote: post #239

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I literally had to set up a “Congratulations / Congrats” filter to auto-delete those emails because they were so frequent and numerous when various accomplishments across the org were announced. The party popper emoji at least makes that far more tolerable.

I read that as “party pooper” - I want that as a reaction emoji.