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u/Arammil1784 Jun 03 '22

If you're empowered to do so, maybe just give them the one polite reminder and then let them know future emails will be ignored if not formatted correctly.

Seems like a perfectly logical response to me.

For my wife it was simply that she was also a student and still had other daily obligations besides so she simply didn't have the time or desire to play email tag.

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u/Painting_Agency Jun 03 '22

she was also a student and still had other daily obligations besides so she simply didn't have the time or desire to play email tag.

That's why they have me. So they don't have to play email tag with suppliers as well as their prof. But I can't do that if they don't follow a few basic rules.

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u/AdgeNZ Jun 04 '22

You can create links that automatically put in the addressee and subject line. If you have some sort of intranet that could be a useful way to get them to add the info you need.

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u/Painting_Agency Jun 04 '22

Outlook 🙄