email courier

An individual who gets up from their chair at their desk to walk to someone else's desk to announce the contents of the email, verbatim. Completely replacing the need for any automated email 'you've got mail' alert , or the email at all for that matter.

Dave: "Kristen, I just sent you an email to let you know to switch the address in the document and to take out the comma before the word 'and' in the second line of the second paragraph on the third page."

Kristen: "For the love of god, please just email it to me and stay in your chair. There is no need to be a email courier, the send button and the internet do that for you. "

by Pistol33 January 3, 2012

Email Hump

When you send an email to a group, and someone on the grouplist has to write back to the group and 'dominate'. They have to get the last word and come across as the most superior in the group. Like when a dog humps another dog to dominate it.

Look at that reply. Dwight email humps me every time I send instructions to the team. He's such an insecure ass!

by Sir Humped a Lot April 15, 2008

Email Poker

Adding names of people with increasing levels of power in an organization to the CC line on an email on each reply, thereby upping the “ante” of the email’s audience. This generally results in an email that should only be between 2 or 3 people having a CC line with 20 names on it and 87 replies.

Joe didn't like Mary's reply to his email, so he started a round of "Email Poker" by CCing her boss. “I’ll see your project manager and raise you a vice president.”

by Cosmo T May 21, 2009

email storm

A deluge of emails received from a listserv that is mistakenly set to "reflector" mode, making every reply go to all the thousands of people on the email list! Most of the messages in the email storm say things like, "Remove me from this list" or "Why am I getting all these emails?" The email storm is worst when it happen on a weekend or holiday when the email administrator is unavailable to stop the problem, such as the Veterans Day 2009 (11/11/2009) email storm by the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary afflicting all the thousands of Coast Guard Auxiliary members in District 1 SR.

> Why am I still getting all these emails?
> Remove me from this list
> Stop hitting REPLY, because it's going to everyone!
> So you do not want us to reply to any emails from this address?
> No! Stop hitting reply!
> Don't you realize you are exacerbating the problem?
> Unsubscribe
> Hey morons, stop saying "unsubscribe" because it's going to everyone! You've created an email storm!
> Take me off this list
> I am currently out of the office...
> Hey, why are you sending out of office messages to me? Take me off the list!
> Stop hitting reply.
> You first!

by Eldorean November 11, 2009

email albatross

Not wanting to write even one email, as such an act would necessitate tackling, or even thinking about, all the other emails stacked up in your Inbox. Occasionally shortened to albatross.

...sorry I haven't been in touch but I've been suffering from a major case of email albatross...

by eine May 30, 2006

email packrat

One who has a difficult time placing emails in the deleted file and an even harder time emptying the deleted file because of the finality of the action. They are afraid they may someday need one of those emails (although they never will)

At the time of this posting, I have exatly 6000 emails contained in my inbox. I am an email packrat!

by notbait January 16, 2007

email chain

The enitirety of the back and forth conversation in an email exchange.

Can you send me your phone number

I did, refer to earlier in this email chain, a couple emails back I think.

by kapinsano March 13, 2011