CNN: 10 email gaffes to avoid

Despite the continued popularity of email, some business professionals use emoticons and all caps in their communiqués. Don’t.

Yet many professional emails look anything but polished when the writer has “gone all kindergarten” with fonts, used informal greetings, or “yelled” with all caps in the subject line.

CNN.com offered 10 examples of emails that shouldn’t be sent. The list includes:

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