Give it up man! Flagging your emails and using a lot of exclamation marks does not make you important!

That's what inbound processing (Outlook Inbox Assistant for example) is all about.

In my previous job, a few people got exceptions up front, such as my supervisors (and they were very judicious about flags and importances and such; I was fortunate). Everyone else got all flags and importances reset to "normal." I realized early on in this all the machinery for this (headers and such) was at the whim of the sender, and usually had absolutely nothing to do with my reality. After all, sure, it's a big pain point for you, but how the heck are you suppoed to know all of what's happening in the rest of my world? Oh, yeah, you're my supervisor, so you do know, so that's one big reason you get excepted.

supposed to be for, yes. Used that way? not so much.

It's gotten so bad that anything that doesn't have a subject line, has "(no subject)" as the subject line (as some mailers do), or one word subject lines go straight away into a file called "rejects" which doesn't get looked at unless or until absolutely everything else is taken care of.

I too share frustration expressed by others, in that you'll regularly see "question for you" (instead of, ohidunno, "question about that tool you used last I saw you"), or "calendar reminder" (about what???), again, by people who are often well-meaning but are just close to clueless. The same holds true, BTW, for Microsoft and, among other things, their monthly updates. After all, please...how tough can it be, instead of writing "security update" followed by some obscure knowledgebase reference, to write "security update addressing lack of BITS service parameter validation" or whatever it happens to be? Oh, right, we are Gates of Borg (well, these days, Ballmer of Borg, but the graphic doesn't look that way), you will be assimilated--they're drones instead of intelligent people over there.

Thank you. That looks like a way around their stooooooooopid JavaScript.

To briefly describe what went on, I entered in a new journal entry--just a single line to try out this newfangled JavaScript posting method. Then I clicked on the edit function. I finished typing about an hour's worth, probably more, then clicked "preview." What I saw was the original single line of text. It wasn't a preview, it was an erasure...an obliteration.

It just goes to show what I should be doing is typing out my thoughts in something tried and true, like Emacs or vi, then copy/pasting into their stooooooooopid system.

Thanks also for the "Dr. Who" reference.