Out of bounds in the inbox

Professional decorum needs to change in the following scenario:  If someone at work replies to an email with a response that clearly indicates that person did not actually read the message, it should be perfectly acceptable, and even expected, for the original sender to send back: "Read what I wrote the first time, dumb ass."

We're losing too many hours of productivity having to find clever, unoffensive ways of rephrasing what was composed originally in an effort to avoid making the unobservant and attention-deficient feel as though they are unobservant and attention-deficient. Being nice is not working, and insults may not make these people any better, but clearly the only hope left is to allow those whose text gets ignored to have some outlet for venting. But ostensible professionalism prevents even that, so it's a lose-lose.

If it's good enough for the blogosphere, isn't it time to be good enough for the office?

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Happy Springtime, everybody.