Comments on: Email Pleasantries Are Time Wasters

By: Matt Hooper

Matt Hooper — Tue, 11 May 2010 20:25:19 +0000

I still address and sign my emails like I have always done but I try to keep the stuff in between as brief as possible.

By: graphgetsen

graphgetsen — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:30:17 +0000

Pleasantries are time-wasters whenever the interest is feigned.

Email is more a tool nowadays, and can afford to be treated as such.
The medium is the mess age.

I'm also an advocate of email brevity, but do try and bracket my four sentences with a warm salutation and signature.

By: Matt Hooper

Matt Hooper — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:08:35 +0000

I am guessing people don't read full emails these days because they are skimming through the sludge but when you skim you miss parts.

Sometimes numbered lists are even better since recipients are more likely to respond to a series of numbers and not skip them. This isn't always true either but I find it helps.

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Q: Why is this four sentences or less?
A: http://four.sentenc.es

By: Travis Hulsey 崔惟思

Travis Hulsey 崔惟思 — Tue, 11 May 2010 16:58:06 +0000

I find that the fundamental problem is simply that people don't *read* everything in an e-mail anymore. I can't send any kind of request to people these days without using bullet points, and even *then* things get completely ignored.

I'm curious to know later on how many people *still* reply to you asking if you're upset because they never clicked the sentenc.es link for an explanation.

- Sent from my iPhone