I definitely vary my email style depending on the recipient...
* With email to people I don't know I will usually at least sign on / sign off ("Dear X or "Hi X" at the beginning, some kind of "Yours/Thanks/Regards" at the end).
* Email to colleagues tends to be much less formally structured (but may still be formal in tone if they're senior to me -- just doesn't need all the "Dear X" apparatus).
* Email to friends reads like far-too-accurately transcribed speech... :-}
I rather like your senior colleague's style. Looks like something from an 18th century novel. :)
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* With email to people I don't know I will usually at least sign on / sign off ("Dear X or "Hi X" at the beginning, some kind of "Yours/Thanks/Regards" at the end).
* Email to colleagues tends to be much less formally structured (but may still be formal in tone if they're senior to me -- just doesn't need all the "Dear X" apparatus).
* Email to friends reads like far-too-accurately transcribed speech... :-}
I rather like your senior colleague's style. Looks like something from an 18th century novel. :)