In the last e-mail I received from fellow
E-Media Tidbits blogger
Fons Tuinstra (who lives in China), I noticed an interesting addition to his signature. It read:
This e-mail is: [ ] blogable [ ] ask first [ ] private
That's great idea. Each time you send an e-mail, of course, you need to put an "x" in one of the boxes.
Why is this necessary? Well, in a world where everyone, it seems, has a
blog, it's worthwhile to make it clear when something you've sent in an
e-mail is meant to be private. It just might save some embarrassment
and hard feelings if a recipient of your e-mails decides to blog what
you hadn't intended to be shared with the world.
I believe Ross Mayfield may have been the first to...
