Ask HN: How do you decide who to add first in a group email?

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There are always those people who notice what order you add them to a group email. How do you decide who to add first? Alphabetical? Most Sr to most Jr? Most relevant to least relevant?

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If you reply, the moment of decision is mostly lost. The secondary question "who do you add, and who do you remove" remains.

It is polite to consider the to/cc list differently I think. they are not the same by intent or meaning. Bcc of course is in a special set of its own.

If your message has a voice, couched to a receiver, then it is sensible for any you language to be understood as being To: that person.

I've never paid attention to that personally. I guess I add them in order of most important (who I anticipate getting most value out of the meeting) subconsciously, but I try to keep as few people in To: as I can and put "everyone else" in CC:.

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