An e-mail draft was sitting on my computer when I got to my office this morning. It’s obviously something I started on Friday and never finished. This happens occasionally. The message read, in its entirety:
I want to run three areas for potential improvement by you
It did not have a subject or a “to” address. I hadn’t even added punctuation to the end of the sentence.
So, at the end of the day on Friday I had devised three brilliant ways to improve some application — that’s the only reason I would write such a thing — but I now have absolutely no idea what they were, which application it was, who would need to know about them, or even if there’s still time to implement them. I also know that I could not pursue this unilaterally, since I was about to ask someone else.
Discard.
Blërg.
January 21st, 2009 at 6:15 am
I contend anyone can complete a email that has a To: address and begins with “I am concerned…”.