Munich - Not all e-mail messages are well received. Some 64 per cent of users report being annoyed at chain e-mail messages hitting their private mailboxes. These messages typically ask that the recipient forward them on to as many other persons as possible. In office situations, only 45 per cent are bothered by that kind of mail. Those results nevertheless put chain e-mail messages at the top of the list of annoying e-mail habits, reports Yahoo! Germany from its Munich offices. The e-mail provider surveyed more than 1,600 users about what bothered them most in the realm of e-mail messages.
Second place fell to incomprehensible abbreviations. The commonly used acronym LOL, which stands for "laughing out loud," is understood by virtually every teenager but leaves some 40 per cent of respondents just shaking their heads. Some 34 per cent of office e-mailers were also left less than amused.
Other annoyances in the top 5: "endlessly long e-mail messages" with all e-mail messages in a conversation just piled on (third place), forwarding of e-mail messages without permission (fourth place), and poor spelling (fifth place).
