Tuesday, April 19, 2005

e-mail salutations?

Brad Templeton suggests that nobody includes salutations in e-mail messages any more. Nobody except strangers and spammers.
Sometimes though, I get form letters from real companies I deal with, and they still like to put my name in it, like they used to on paper. As you probably know, in E-mail today, you don't put in salutations any more unless it's a mail to a stranger.
I dunno about this. Maybe it's that my colleagues at the College of New Jersey are more formal than "normal people." But I've gotten the following salutations TODAY from people I think I know reasonably well:
  • Hi -
  • Ron, [twice]
  • Dear Ron,
  • Dear colleagues, [from my wife -- LOL]
  • Hello,
So that tells me, Brad, that ONE of the two of us is not living in the same universe as the other. :-) :-) :-)

PS -- I never use salutations in e-mail any more either. But I know a couple people who use them even in instant messages. Go figure.

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