I ottallly aggree. tHeze peeples writing badly malformed eemals annoys me a-lot's.

Bob izoo COOL! LOL.

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and bob has a point. c'mon. when i had an actual job, how many friggin e-mails a day would i get a day from people who were down the hall or two floors above me? if you want something, you need to ask for it.

All I can say is, some people are better in person than they are in print. Other people are better in print (even if it's e-mail). A lot of introverts were saved by e-mail. Extroverts should probably stay away from it. Obviously, there's a time and a place for e-mail as well. It's not a cell phone and it's no substitute for a serious heart to heart etc. blah blah blah

Excellent advice. So many people spend so much time trying to control the amount of e-mail that comes in, when they really need to be controlling what goes out. (If you don't send it out, it won't come back to you...)

I'm one of the introverts who was saved by email. This doesn't mean, however, that developing actual social skills isn't crucial in life. Not that I'm some great writer, but I write <i>much</i> better than I speak.

When I was building websites for banks, one of my colleagues was a woman who was terrified of the telephone. But many of our clients were terrified of email (and technology in general). Ugh. Try to put together a website for someone who has no sense of design, and no familiarity with technology. Then try it with fractured communication.

Regarding which emails to read and which to ignore... I am infinitely more likely to read (and respond to) an email which consists of proper grammar and punctuation. Yeah, I'm a grammar snob. I admit it. Just today a paralegal colleague asked, "<i>What today is?</i>" I responded, "I'm not gonna answer that until you start talking like a legal guy."

His intelligent, thought-out response? "<i>Go to hell, McGovern</i>."

Yeah, I saw that coming.