What is an Email Train?
One of the things you should avoid when you’re emailing is creating what is called an email train. You’ve likely seen these before if you’re not that new to the net or email communications. These are letters in which there are a huge number of previous replies on the end of them. If a variety a people on a listserve have been discussing one topic and have failed to delete the replies from other contributors, an email train can stretch for pages of text. Creating an email train is not thought good netiquette or email etiquette. There are a few ways to avoid it. First, when you press the reply button in many email programs, you’ll usually have all of the email to which you’re replying quoted directly below where you will type. You can delete this entirely to avoid an email train. Lots of people do want to refer to specific parts of someone else’s letter. Instead of leaving a whole email in place, cut out all details that aren’t necessary, especially if the email train has multiple replie
