Snippet: Spot the Line in Your Draft Email That Will Start a Reply-All War

The distribution list has forty people on it and one line in your draft is going to make at least six of them hit reply-all. This reads the email, points at the exact line most likely to cause it, and rewrites it calmer before you find out the hard way.

You are about to send an email to a large distribution list and something in it feels risky. Read the draft below and identify the single line most likely to provoke an unnecessary reply-all chain, whether from ambiguity, a request everyone will feel they need to answer, or a tone that will get people's backs up. State which line it is and suggest a calmer rewrite. [paste your draft email here]