首页
登录
职称英语
The first person I came across who’d got the measure of e-mall was an America
The first person I came across who’d got the measure of e-mall was an America
游客
2025-01-15
2
管理
问题
The first person I came across who’d got the measure of e-mall was an American friend who was high up in a big corporation. Some years ago, when this method of communication first seeped into business life from academia, his company in New York and its satellites across the globe were among the first to get it. In the world’s great seats of learning, e-mail had for some years allowed researchers to share vital new jokes. And if there was cutting-edge wit to be had, there was no way my friend’s corporation would be without it.
One evening in New York, he was late for a drink we’d arranged. "Sorry," he said, "I’ve been away and had to deal with 998 e-mails in my queue." "Wow," I said, "I’m really surprised you made it before midnight."
"It doesn’t really take that tong," be explained, "if you simply delete them all."
True to form, he had developed a strategy before most of us had even heard of e-mail. If any information he was sent was sufficiently vital, his lack of response would ensure the sender rang him up. If the sender wasn’t important enough to have his private number, the communication couldn’t be sufficiently important. My friend is now even more senior in the same company, so the strategy must work, although these days, I don’t tend to send him many e-mails.
Almost every week now, there seems to be another report suggesting that we are all being driven crazy by the torment of e-mall. But if this is the case, it’s only because we haven’t developed the same discrimination in dealing with e-mail as we do with post. Have you ever mistaken an important letter for a piece of unsolicited advertising and thrown it out? Of course you haven’t. This is because of the obliging stupidity of 99 per cent of advertisers, who just can’t help making their mailshots look like the junk mail that they are. Junk e-mail looks equally unnecessary to read. Why anyone would feel the slightest compulsion to open the sort of thing entitled "SPECIALOFFER@junk.com" I cannot begin to understand. Even viruses, those sneaky messages that contain a bug which can corrupt your whole computer system, come helpfully labelled with packaging that shrieks "danger, do not open".
Handling e-mail is an art. Firstly, you junk anything with an exclamation mark or a string of capital letters, or from any address you don’t recognise or feel confident about. Secondly, while I can’t quite support my American friend’s radical policy, e-mails don’t all have to be answered. Because e-mailing is so easy, there’s a tendency for correspondence to carry on for ever, but it is permissible to end a strand of discussion by simply not discussing it any longer— or to accept a point of information sent by a colleague without acknowledging it.
Thirdly, a reply e-mail doesn’t have to be the same length as the original. We all have e-mail buddies who send long, chatty e-mails, which are nice to receive, but who then expect an equally long reply. Tough. The charm of e-mail can lie in the simple, suspended sentence, with total disregard for the formalities of the letter sent by post. You are perfectly within the bounds of politeness in responding to a marathon e-mail with a terse one-liner, like: "How distressing. I’m sure it will clear up." [br] In paragraph 6, which of the following pieces of advice is given?
选项
A、Forget about e-mails which you do not intend to acknowledge.
B、Use e-mall as a way of avoiding unnecessary conversations.
C、Be prepared to break off overlong e-mail communications.
D、Read your e-mails even if you’re not going to answer them.
答案
C
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3913691.html
相关试题推荐
WhichofthefollowingisNOTthepurposeofAmerica’scentralbank?[br][orig
WhichofthefollowingisNOTthepurposeofAmerica’scentralbank?[br][orig
WhichofthefollowingisNOTthepurposeofAmerica’scentralbank?[br][orig
WhichofthefollowingisNOTthepurposeofAmerica’scentralbank?[br][orig
WhichofthefollowingisNOTthepurposeofAmerica’scentralbank?[br][orig
WhichofthefollowingisNOTthepurposeofAmerica’scentralbank?[br][orig
WhichofthefollowingisNOTthepurposeofAmerica’scentralbank?[br][orig
WhichofthefollowingisNOTthepurposeofAmerica’scentralbank?[originalte
MississippiisatypicalAmericansouthernstate.[br][originaltext]Nostatee
MississippiisatypicalAmericansouthernstate.[br][originaltext]Nostatee
随机试题
女性,45岁,畏寒、乏力,记忆力减退10个月。体检:反应迟钝,体温35.6℃,眼
根据《公路桥梁伸缩装置通用技术条件》(JT/T327-2016),伸缩装置按照伸
下列关于商业银行违约风险暴露的表述,正确的是()。A.违约风险暴露应包括对客户
不适合脑脊髓液穿刺检查适应证的是A.中枢神经系统疾病椎管内给药治疗B.脑瘤合并脑
从所给的四个选项中,选择最合适的一个填入问号处,使之呈现一定的规律性:
2013年单项选择:学生在教师指导下进行数学的实地测算、地理的地形测绘、生物的植
经济社会最普遍、最基本的社会关系是()A:经济关系 B:法律关系 C:劳动关
马克思恩格斯认为社会主义将在几个主要的发达国家实现,列宁则根据变化了的实际情况提
一般来说,流动性与偿还期限( )。A.负相关 B.正相关 C.无关 D.不
哪种疾病最易引起明显脾肿大A.特发性血小板减少性紫癜 B.自身免疫性溶血性贫血
最新回复
(
0
)