This Message is Posted With Low Importance.

Ack! The sky is falling! Donkeys are on fire! Children cannot find their mommy! So, I sent this message with high importance!  !  Blark!

Almost every single message I get flagged with high importance is not important to me. It might be important to the person who sent it, but importance is subjective. In my opinion, if a message is not time sensitive in a relatively short time period, and it is not critical to either me or my bosses, it is not important - period. And, of course, important things are rarely urgent and urgent things are rarely important.

Do not send me a meeting request with barely a title, much less an agenda, and is scheduled a month from now, marked as urgent. It just isn't.

The option I do like to use, which I seem to be alone in using, is the low importance option. Some of us already consider all email to be low importance. But, I find this option to be a courteous indicator to the recipient that I am not trying to push my interpretation of importance on them.

I don't use it all the time, but I do find that some of my emails are truly not important. I think it is nice to let the person on the other end know.

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