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No Response Needed (NRN)
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Can we start a trend please?
Are you sick of emails that say “thanks” or “sounds great” and other pointless ones that you really didn’t need to read?
Let’s join together and advocate for NRN. NO RESPONSE NEEDED. Include this at the end of your emails and let people know they don’t need to say thanks or other useless phrases.
Bottom Line: NRN for this post. Just do it;)
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39 Responses to “No Response Needed (NRN)”
July 25th, 2007
12:21 pm
I actually like receiving those short replies. It lets me know my message was received and that the whole Internet machine is working. Plus, those are the easiest ones to receive because I can delete them without much thought.
July 25th, 2007
12:22 pm
Sounds great, thanks!
July 25th, 2007
12:24 pm
I’m in complete agreement with you Noah. If I need a response, the last line of my email (or my subject header) will say, “Please confirm.”
Otherwise, there are a lot of useless emails floating around. My whole office has adopted the idea of NRN and it has worked fabulously.
July 25th, 2007
12:28 pm
I do like getting confirmations as well. It’s not that. It’s the emails that say pointless things or don’t really need to be sent…
July 25th, 2007
12:39 pm
Super! =)
July 25th, 2007
12:41 pm
This should be combined with answers/complete mails in the subject line.
Subject: Re: Something that was important [Thanks/nT]
Subject: Meeting for Tuesday 2007-7-25 canceled [nT]
And when the mail has a body, add such a bottom line as mentioned by Noah.
Also confirmations are sometimes a good thing. The “automatic mail delivered response” (what was the name for that .. hm) could be used, but this has some flaws …
Work out a good list of words/functions (international) and make Mozilla/Apple/MS build it in there tools
July 25th, 2007
12:42 pm
thanks, sounds great, excellent, blah, blah, blah!
July 25th, 2007
1:11 pm
Would you rather have me turn on read receipts?
July 25th, 2007
1:25 pm
I like those emails. It stops me from being annoying and micromanaging.
I also reply to them. “ACK”
July 25th, 2007
1:35 pm
Add to that the people who get upset when you don’t respond to:
1. Happy Birthday e-mails;
2. e-mails containing news articles;
3. Invitations you are not interested in accepting.
To all of you, thanks, sounds good, move on.
July 25th, 2007
1:38 pm
Can we apply the same rule to both e-mail and text messages?
No, atish!!
July 25th, 2007
2:12 pm
thanks for this tip, sounds great.
July 25th, 2007
2:50 pm
Comment bait
July 25th, 2007
4:04 pm
Clever idea, I will start to spread it.
July 25th, 2007
4:50 pm
Hmm, this is the only post that does not seem to have the Share button (which you have recently installed) and this is the one I wish to share, why is that?
July 25th, 2007
5:10 pm
alright
July 25th, 2007
5:13 pm
This kind of reminds me of comments when should you still leave one if its just “great post.” Frankly, I like it. You can always look at my old comments make me orgasm and really anything you say I will appreciate it=)
I guess I am easy to please…
The share button is a new beta feature that I am helping out some friends with. I will get it on the main post shortly, have to play with the CSS a bit to make it work. Any thoughts?
July 25th, 2007
5:22 pm
Yeah I like the feature, but I presonally prefer Gregarious and it’s “Share This” feature. I am not so keen on the icon that is used for either Gregarious or your one though, hehe, not sure why.
July 25th, 2007
5:32 pm
Unrelated to this post, but just wanted to mention a SEO tip to you.
You should download and use the Permalink Redirect WordPress plugin (you can Google it)
Long story short, it will fix the canonical problems on your blog. Right now, okdork.com and http://www.okdork.com point to the same page, as does okdork.com/postname and okdork.com/postname/ .
The plugin will fix this by doing a 301 redirect from okdork.com to http://www.okdork.com
NRN
July 25th, 2007
5:33 pm
I love it Johns, will install tonight. What about the meta tags? For some reason my meta description stuff is all whack. Do a google search for some of my things and you’ll see. Any recommendations?
July 25th, 2007
5:53 pm
Pffft, don’t talk to be about Meta Tags and WordPress, they just don’t like each other - I have been trying to get search engines to read proper meta tag descriptions, keywords, etc. on my blog for ages, but the search engine just doesn’t seem to want to know.
July 25th, 2007
6:37 pm
i use these a lot at work with my boss. except it’s more like, unless i hear otherwise, this is how i will proceed…
i find it very efficient.
July 25th, 2007
6:38 pm
The best plugin for generating meta descriptions is
http://guff.szub.net/2005/09/01/head-meta-description/
It will automatically take the first few lines of your blogpost and set it as the description. Alternatively, you COULD use All-In-One SEO pack and set all your descriptions manually, but it’s really not worth the trouble.
As for meta keyword tags, they don’t even really matter anymore for SEO because it’s easy to abuse.
July 25th, 2007
7:50 pm
Perfect.
July 25th, 2007
7:57 pm
Awesome:)
July 25th, 2007
10:48 pm
noah, i love you.
NRN
July 25th, 2007
10:50 pm
That’s so not fair Joe. I can’t respond. Argh you!
July 26th, 2007
7:07 am
I particularly hate the emails from company support departments that say “You question has been received. Please allow for 48 answers for a representative to get back to you.” or something along those lines. Always makes me think that they were really quick and answered my question in a matter of minutes >:o
July 26th, 2007
8:24 am
cool beans.
July 26th, 2007
10:32 am
I like the feedback but what i dont like is someone replying thanks and hits “reply to all”. Thats a nuisance!!!!
July 26th, 2007
10:37 am
roky doky.
July 26th, 2007
11:26 am
to me, these useless responses are a confirmation that he/she received my email. so i like that. i’d like it even better if these responses would evolve more into …’btw, my ex called me and asked if i slept with another girl’ or ‘ what do you think i should have for dinner?’ or perhaps ‘thanks. i think you’re fantastic. let’s have strawberry shortcake ice cream from haagendaz’
July 26th, 2007
12:16 pm
LOL!!!! Just remove the REPLY ALL button on emails for me please… I laughed so hard in my little cube bro. Hilarious!
July 26th, 2007
5:56 pm
I agree, let’s get rid of those — but what bugs me far more than the unnecessary emails? The same thing, but in text messages! Do you REALLY need to send me that text message that says “Cool” after i say “i’ll meet you there”??
July 26th, 2007
8:09 pm
Ironic a post re: “cut back on useless email” would lead to a dialogue for “fixing” instances of “OkDork.com” so they always have those EXTREMELY IMPORTANT 3 letters… http://WWW.
( JW at 5:32 pm )
My god, we must keep the WWW on our URLs, eh? Go the other direction! Lose ‘em!
Last time i checked, i don’t have any OkDork.com sites hosted on my intranet, so it’s EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that i tell my browser it should begin its search on the World Wide Web. (Note: if it looks on my intranet and doesn’t find it, it will look outside the house anyways.)
Why don’t we INSTEAD start auto-trunkating the @#$%j WWW from all websites, so the 95% of society who never knew what it stood for in the first place can chill out and stop saying, stop writing, and stop typing these EXTREMELY IMPORTANT 3 letters.
We should adopt a new practice: Shred the http://WWW. If you type it, i will make it disappear. google.com really is enough — really. OkDork.com as well.
PS - I’m hereby adding “Shred the WWW” to my salutations.
July 27th, 2007
1:39 am
I would rather see the dreaded “reply-to-all” used with a little more constraint.
There’s a natural tendency in human behavior to be responsive as a courtesy. If someone doesn’t respond, they might think that you didn’t receive their email, didn’t read it, etc.
July 27th, 2007
10:53 am
“Last time i checked, i don’t have any OkDork.com sites hosted on my intranet, so it’s EXTREMELY IMPORTANT that i tell my browser it should begin its search on the World Wide Web.”
Correct me if I am wrong here, but the domain level importance is listed in REVERSE. For instance, the highest domain is COM, followed by OKDORK, followed by http://WWW. So your browser wouldn’t look on the intranet for OKDORK because it has already been narrowed to the .COM tree?
July 29th, 2007
9:26 am
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August 2nd, 2007
3:13 pm
Noah, I hope you realised that this post still doesn’t have the share button next to it’s title?
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