Email Etiquette
Posted 15 years ago
If you begin your emails with "Hi, <name>!" then they will seem less rude.
> steve, we were testing your changes and they errored. can you pls > look at these tracefiles? > cam You dolt, you set HPLX_PARAMETER_7=A0, but it should be set to AO. Please re-run the test.
Compare to:
> steve, we were testing your changes and they errored. can you pls > look at these tracefiles? > cam Hi, Cam! You dolt, you set HPLX_PARAMETER_7=A0, but it should be set to AO. Please re-run the test.
See what I mean?
Steve Hanov makes a living working on
Rhymebrain.com,
rapt.ink,
www.websequencediagrams.com,
and Zwibbler.com. He lives in
Waterloo, Canada.
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seriously someone help Sharon Summers on that Zinsser transformer thing
three years ago
Karan did indeed lol.
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max
twelve years ago
Hi, Cam!
PS
I've just spent several hours reading your website,
no 'real' work done,
wish there was more :)
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Scott
15 years ago
Hi, Steve!
This entry sucks, please try harder to make a good entry next time.
(Did it work?)
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