I have an occasionally outrageously obnoxious colleague who once ticked me off for not writing emails of the form "Dear X, blah blah blah, kindest regards from your most obedient servant Andrew", rather than my usual style of assuming that the recipient knows who they are and who I am and just writing "blah blah blah" with an automatic three-line sig at the bottom. A generational thing I think - I've always considered email to be an informal way of sending messages to people you already know (because when I started using it, your mates in the lab were about the only people you ever sent email to), he's a bit younger (and considerably more conservative than me) and thinks of it more like writing a letter.
I also have a senior colleague WHO --- writes email LIKE THIS. I think he's dyslexic but I don't THINK that explains the RANDOM --- CAPITALISED words --- and DASHES. He has improved slightly, perhaps because people tend to look at him in meetings when discussing the awful way students compose email.
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Date: 2009-06-09 09:27 am (UTC)I also have a senior colleague WHO --- writes email LIKE THIS. I think he's dyslexic but I don't THINK that explains the RANDOM --- CAPITALISED words --- and DASHES. He has improved slightly, perhaps because people tend to look at him in meetings when discussing the awful way students compose email.