![]() ![]() ![]() When I respond to an email, I usually open with a sentence, placing the recipient’s name at the end, so it feels like a natural statement: “Thank you for letting me know, Amy.” If I initiate an email to someone I know, I usually open with the person’s name followed by a comma and continue on the same line: “Amy, six months ago you asked me to notify you when WordRake for Mac would be available.” ![]() Reichert” followed by a colon and separated from the body-a little old-fashioned maybe, but it conveys a tone of respect. A “Hi” or “Hello,” as one commentator put it, helps to “warm the recipient.” But if we don’t know the recipient, and especially if we’re asking the recipient for a favor, we can’t go wrong with “Dear Ms. Reichert:” now we open emails, “Hi, Amy.” We can already feel the loosening, which is nice, not so stuffy, less Victorian. In the “Olden Days,” as Millennials refer to the time before email, we opened a letter, “Dear Ms. Now we’re looking at the “Whens of Email.” Last week we discussed what to put in the four lines of the header. For the third week, we are examining the necessary evil of email, and the wariness with which we must approach this oh-so-informal medium when we use it to conduct our oh-so-important business. ![]()
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