Sauntering Vaguely Downward

Thankfully very few people in my workplace bother with them, which is partly because our IT people asked people to not use them as a blanket technique because they were snarling up the helpdesk ticket system (auto-replies also do this, sighhh). But some external people do and look, the quote I requested is probably important to me, but I'm still not sending you a read receipt to prove that I opened/read it.