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Alex Singleton

Alex Singleton is part of the Daily Telegraph's leader-writing team and is a contributing editor at the Sunday Telegraph. You can visit his personal site and follow him on Twitter.

10 of the rudest ways to use email

If you'd like to spend a day losing friends and alienating your colleagues, here's a to-do list:

1. Prefix your most tedious emails with the words: "Press release".

2. Send an email asking for a favour, but copy in others so that a refusal is embarrassing.

3. Publish private emails on your blog.

4. Respond to an email by replying to someone's boss, merely cc-ing the original sender.

5. Send Microsoft Word attachments, which might contain viruses, and preferably use the new .docx format that most people can't read.

6. Use capital letters throughout (Derek Draper says this isn't shouting).

7. Start your emails with "I don't mean to be rude, but…"

8. Use the highest priority flag for your pettiest messages.

9. Demand a read receipt.

10. And forward hoax emails to your entire address book.

Are there any that I've missed?

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