[nabs-l] sending a message to all Gmail contacts?

[T. Joseph Carter]

As a person who has very carefully written rules to deal with others 
who tend to send messages to everybody they know, please DON’T.  
Anyone who has ever sent you an email is likely a GMail contact, and 
absolutely anybody you’ve ever sent an email to automatically is.

It sounds harsh—and it really isn’t meant to be I promise—but there 
is truly nothing you, I, or absolutely anybody for that matter could 
possibly have to say that anybody we have ever exchanged an email 
with could possibly care to read.

It doesn’t matter if it’s funny (odds are, at least a third of the 
people you’re sending it to have seen it already or don’t get the 
joke), an important announcement (just as many aren’t interested, 
don’t care, or have no idea what you’re talking about), or even if it 
was a message telling everyone that the world was literally coming to 
an end in 24 hours and you have positive proof (90% of your list will 
not believe you and think you’re out of your mind.)

I’m thinking of one person in particular right now.  He and I 
exchange emails now and then that are important, so I haven’t 
consigned all of his mail automatically to the bitbucket.  But most 
of his emails are jokes (which largely aren’t as funny as he thinks) 
or political news I’ve already heard about.  Basically, any message 
of his that goes to six or more people, I now automatically delete, 
and others have told me that his emails really annoy the crap out of 
them.

Truly, just do everyone you know a favor and don’t go down that road.

Friendly advice, possibly worth no more than what you paid for it,

Joseph - KF7QZC


On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:32:38AM -0400, chris nusbaum wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I have a question for all Gmail users. Is there a way that I can send
>a message to all Gmail contacts at the same time? Is there some kind
>of "send to all" button like there is on my mom's Yahoo account? I'm
>asking because, as I posted last night, our business (Arianna's Art,
>Inc.) has created a new Gmail account where people can send us
>questions, feedback, orders, etc. We'd also like to create a contacts
>list for our Gmail account, and send out an email to all our contacts
>when we have a new announcement or a piece of news. So, can I do this
>in Gmail without Google group? If I can't do this with JAWS in Basic
>HTML mode, I'll just create a list on Google Groups. But, can I send
>one message to all contacts? Thanks!
>
>-- 
>Chris Nusbaum
>
>Sales and Advertising Coordinator
>
>Arianna's Art Inc. Paintings for the Blind and Sighted!!!
>
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>
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>impaired children in MD say "I can!"
>
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