Some people send me emails that start “Dear Andrew” and have elegant signoffs, but no subjects. These madden me. I reply with emails that have subject lines, but no salutation or signoff — after all, their email program shows who it is from, and the fact that they’ve got it shows they are meant to read it. I wonder, sometimes, if they upset their recipients.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some people send me emails that start “Dear Andrew” and have elegant signoffs, but no subjects. These madden me. I reply with emails that have subject lines, but no salutation or signoff — after all, their email program shows who … Continue reading