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Re: Texting: Do You Acknowledge Receipt?

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On 8/17/2016 12:14 PM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
> In my little world, the polite thing to do is acknowledge receipt of
> emails.
>
> But the texting paradigm seems tb around brevity/economy of time - so
> acknowledging receipt would seem to partially defeat that by requiring
> the originator to check their text messages and just see "Thanks..." or
> "Got it..." or something like that.
>
> So, Bottom Line: do you acknowledge receipt of text messages?
>
> e.g. Somebody texts you "Arriving at 13:30"....  Do you text back, or
> just let it ride?
>

In the example you cite, yes, I would definitely at least send an "OK". I'm 
sure that there any number of other circumstances where I would not/do not 
bother. My time is not so valuable that, if it might prove helpful, I can't 
manage to put in two characters and press send.

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Texting: Do You Acknowledge Receipt? "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2016-08-17 12:14 -0400
  Re: Texting: Do You Acknowledge Receipt? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-08-17 11:24 -0500
  Re: Texting: Do You Acknowledge Receipt? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-08-17 20:28 +0200
  Re: Texting: Do You Acknowledge Receipt? John McGaw <Nobody@Nowh.ere> - 2016-08-17 14:46 -0400
    Re: Texting: Do You Acknowledge Receipt? "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2016-08-18 11:02 -0400
      Re: Texting: Do You Acknowledge Receipt? AL <noemail@none.com> - 2016-08-18 10:03 -0700
  Re: Texting: Do You Acknowledge Receipt? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-08-17 16:36 -0400
  Re: Texting: Do You Acknowledge Receipt? Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2016-08-18 15:58 +0100
  Re: Texting: Do You Acknowledge Receipt? daves@leaflinelabs.com - 2017-01-13 12:29 -0800

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