Let’s please normalize acknowledging emails with the outlook emoji reactions. Does anyone actually use those?

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I wanted it to work as a way to acknowledge receipt without having to clutter the sender’s inbox with a “Thanks!” reply email. But anytime someone has sent me one, I don’t see it until the next day, when I get an email saying “Bob has reacted to your message.” The lag time and fact it generates a new email defeats the purpose!

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Nah chill

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I hate those. And I’m a millennial, Queen of emoji use

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I did but apparently they weren’t being sent. And now it’s gone

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Im a big emoji responder

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