My work uses outlook and I still get a whole fuckin email saying “Dipshit has reacted 👍” and it’s extremely irritating. I’ll need to remember to turn off reactions on Monday.
I need a shirt that says “dipshit has reacted 👍”
I have a coworker that responds to everything with emojis. Teams messages. Emails. Everything. Even if it’s not relevant to him or directed at him. He always does it. I want to hit him with a chair.
I will say, it’s practical for everyone using the same system. Sometimes it’s nice to acknowledge an email without having to respond to it
And when I had my school account, they’d send out phishing alerts of what to look out for. Those emails would be spammed with crying laughing emojis
In the case of Outlook, read receipts are a thing if the sender wants at least an acknowledgement. True that the receiver can just click no on the option to send that receipt, but presumably they’re also the type that wouldn’t have sent a reaction to the email in the first place.
I disabled it as soon as they were launched. I also disabled the quick reply, reactions, and to text messages etc.
Hey let’s all change what we do and how we do it to accommodate the monopoly Microsoft. Again.
Don’t forget to add a string to your wifi ssid so Microsoft doesn’t index it.
And if you don’t want Google to index it you need to use a different string, and it must be placed at the end.
This how I learn that reactions to e-mail are a thing now? I’m not sure what to even think.
The real stupid thing here is that a header has to be added to disable reactions. Why didn’t Microsoft just use a header to enable them? I mean make it opt in instead of opt out. Then they can use that header in all their Outlook shit and everyone else can go on with their day not worrying about it. So stupid, but not sure what I expected from Microsoft.
If you make a ‘feature’ opt-in, 3 people will use it, so the person who added it would have to work much harder to justify their paycheck. If you make everyone use your ‘feature’ by default, you can say ‘look how many people use the feature I added,’ while actually pointing at the number of people who didn’t turn off the feature according to the
spywaremetrics.
good thing i dont talk to anyone and i only get emails from companies, spam, and appointments. this would annoy the fuck outta me.
you got it!
Seamonkey does this by default, took me ages to work out what the fuck this “J” people kept leaving on emails was
I don’t think it’s the same, the j thing is decades old, I assume it was a font / character encoding issue.
The reaction thing is relatively recent where you get a new email from their email system with a message “John Doe has reacted to your email with: 👍”
Specifically, “J” is a smiley face in Wingdings font.
I got a thumbs-up reply to an email once and immediately looked up how to block it.
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I fucking guarantee you that Microsofts reasoning for this feature is to again force people to use their shit software.
Oh, don’t want those spam mails? Yeaaaahhh, you need to switch to outlook for that.
Or, you know, just block domains that use Microsoft email
Or, you know, just block domains that use Microsoft email
I’m guessing you probably don’t realize how many organizations host their email with Microsoft.
Surprise, you get the spam even if you use Outlook.
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How in the world is that related to the topic at hand?
Coming from a neurodivergent: fuck Microsoft for doing this. It does not go along well with how email should work, makes it confusing for several reasons and shits over a lot of expectations.
According to their history, this is the extend part.
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Yeah i was wondering what was causing this super weird behavior. I knew it was only from microsoft but i didnt understand what was the point. Maybe there is no point.
Is there a way to use this in Apple Mail?
Why am I giving my email to rando Microsoft users?
And why do so many people hate reactions? 🤨
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Does anyone miss Incredimail? Hehe
