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Failing proper royal etiquette (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/[email protected]

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[–] Dravin 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So if you send email to the owner of the compane and to your colleagues on same level you put boss at last spot if they come to your mind as last?

Sure, why not? I think the disconnect is the people who think it is silly don't attach any importance to the order. So asking, "Would you put the most important person last?" is a non-starter as the thinking is that the CC field ends up as a list is an artifact of how email works and isn't imbued with a sense of ordering or ranking of importance. The ordering of the list could be a indicative of who came to mind first, how your email contacts are ordered, or even how a policy is written but not indicative of who you think is most important or senior.

[–] greenmarty -2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So you say we should order the list but only the wrong way to do it is to order it according to the achievements or importance of the recipient?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

The point is that order doesn’t matter. The TO is the main persons who need to see it and the CC is for anyone who needs to be aware.

[–] Dravin 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No. I'm saying if someone doesn't think the order matters or signifies anything of importance then there is no wrong way to do it, there is no right way to do it, there are just ways to do it (of which I mentioned a couple)... because the order doesn't matter.