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On 14/03/15 21:14, Eion MacDonald wrote: > > > On 14/03/2015 21:04, bad apple wrote: >> On 14/03/15 20:38, Eion MacDonald wrote: >>>> Dear Folk, 20150312. >> Well, that's one of the weirdest generic greetings I've seen in an email >> for a while, timestamped no less. I kind of like it. >> > > I deal with people over all time zones and in 4 continents in many > 'keyboards' (Chinese, Russian, Uzbek, USA Czech Republic, etc. Often > with no context of gender or standing (age/status/position etc) so a > long time ago I adopted a standard email greeting (even used to family) > "Dear folk, Yearmonthdate hourminute" . This allows filing and searching > records easy by time and email address. Especially when in live time > contract details are discussed and settled. (like 30 in-out emails over > say 20 minutes, common with Japanese/PRC clients) Makes perfect sense, and I'd already figured out that based on your previous posts you obviously deal with people internationally on a routine basis which explains your timestamp. It's such a great idea I think I'm going to start doing it as well. I deal with crazy Japanese people quite a lot also (anime fansubbing world) and think adopting a standard greeting of "hello chief $date" is a cracking idea. Can't help but notice you've violated your own rule already: quoting "Yearmonthdate hourminute" you've only supplied "Dear Folk, 20150312". Also, it's the 14th of March today so I think your system might need some work :] Cheers Sat Mar 14 21:37:03 GMT 2015 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq