Threemail

Have you ever sent an email containing three or four questions and the recipient responds but only addresses one of the questions? That’s irritating, isn’t it? So, after you get their response you have to ask again. You never know if they didn’t answer it ‘cause they didn’t read the whole thing, or maybe they didn’t know all the answers or they chose for some reason to intentionally not answer all the questions. Do they have some incredibly short attention span that they can’t address more than one question?

I actually had someone tell me once that one way of mitigating this situation is to ask only one question per email. Yeah. I can’t believe he said it either. Wait. What? You gotta be kidding me. We are adults here. Yeah right, let’s just triple our number of emails. We have cars that drive themselves but we can’t answer an email containing more than one question?  

The solution may be to create “Threemail”, a new concept which would tell the receiver up front that they are receiving emails with at least three questions that need to be answered. Works for me!