{"id":1824,"date":"2005-09-20T10:46:04","date_gmt":"2005-09-20T13:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1517"},"modified":"2005-09-20T10:46:04","modified_gmt":"2005-09-20T13:46:04","slug":"writing-sensible-email-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/20\/writing-sensible-email-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing sensible email messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merlin over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/\">43 Folders<\/a> always has useful advice, but this one on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.43folders.com\/2005\/09\/writing_sensibl.html\">Writing Sensible Email Messages<\/a> is essential reading:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Before you type <i>anything<\/i> into a new message, have explicit answers for two questions:<\/p>\n<p>\n1. Why am I writing this?<\/p>\n<p>\n2. What exactly do I want the result of this message to be?<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you can&#8217;t succinctly state these answers, you might want to hold off on sending your message until you can. People get dozens, hundreds, even thousands of emails each day, so it&#8217;s only natural for them to gravitate toward the messages that are well thought-out and that clearly respect their time and attention. Careless emails do not invite careful responses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nI get an awful lot of emails myself, and I wish more people considered making them easier to read&#8230; and to respond to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merlin over at 43 Folders always has useful advice, but this one on Writing Sensible Email Messages is essential reading: Before you type anything into a new message, have explicit answers for two questions: 1. Why am I writing this? 2. What exactly do I want the result of this message to be? If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-tq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}