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email volley

When you have a back-and-forth email "conversation" with someone, and each of you keeps adding to the quoted thread with new information. The email go back and forth like a long-lasting volly during a volleyball game.
"We finally straightened out our misunderstading with an email volley. Of course, if I had just called her, we could have done it in a few seconds."
by Adam Haaretz May 25, 2006
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echo emails

When you receive copies of emails that you previously received because those people who were cc'd on the original sends them to you thinking you never received the first one.
Very annoying as it needlessly floods your inbox.
Damn, I have 49 emails in my inbox but luckily it looks like many of them are simply echo emails.

Dude, please stop with those echo emails, I recieved them already.
by Kid Pseudo October 23, 2008
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Email Bankruptcy

When you are so inundated with email, both genuine email and spam, that you have to delete everything and start over again.
I am so far behind on email that I am declaring email bankruptcy this year.
by Nick Whitehouse May 15, 2007
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Drunk Email

When drunk dialing just insn't enough because the person who you tried to drunk dial didn't answer their phone or you are just so beligerent that you need to talk to more than just the people in your phone.
I didn't have his phone number, so I drunk emailed him...
by JenAJ November 3, 2005
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Deleted Emails

Shit! They found my deleted emails.
by Poosjcopj November 1, 2016
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Mass Email

When in the workplace or school and there is an email system.
A fellow co-worker or student the system by sending emails to everyone who is on the email system.
This often leads to abuse of the email system and can result in having your email inbox spammed by a Mass-emailer.
This can also be irritating because often mass-emailer's will stop stop at just one mass-email, but go on to send more and more and clog up your inbox so that it is full of useless shit.
Yo Guys! I just got a mass email, they are so annoying!!
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Emailer's Remorse

When sending an email, the gut-wrenching feeling of guilt after clicking send. Can be caused by inappropriate or overly emotional content, or just embarrassing spelling or grammatical errors. Such content may be the result of intoxication, but the terrible feeling is more likely to occur when one is sober.
Girl A: I just emailed my ex-boyfriend a poem about how much I still love him....AND I just noticed I used the wrong form of there/their!

Girl B: That is some serious emailer's remorse
by BethBethBethBethBethBeth November 29, 2011
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