For example I’ll send an e-mail with 3 questions and will only get an answer to one of the questions. It’s worse when there are 2 yes/no questions with a question that is obviously not a yes/no question. Then I get a response of

Yes

back in the e-mail. So which question are they answering?

Mainly I’m asking all of you why do people insist on only answering 1 question out of an e-mail where there are multiple? Do people just not read? Are people that lazy? What is going on?

Edit at this point I’ve got the answers . Some are too lazy to actually read. Some admit they get focused on one item and forget to go back. I understand the second group. The first group yeah no excuse there.

Continuing edit: there are comments where people have tried the bullet points and they say it still doesn’t help. I might put the needed questions in red.

  • RivalarrivalEnglish
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    16 days ago

    IMO, email isn’t for answering questions. Email is for documenting that the conversation occurred.

    If they won’t answer the questions in email, ask them in a phone call, then send a “Per our conversation” email summarizing the answers they provided. Until they send a rebuttal, I am free to act as though my email was their answer.