yeah exactly. If you spent all your time sweating small stuff like that you'd sweat an awful lot, right? I vote for Pat's suggestion. I am sure they have had the question many times before. If you address it directly they will at least know that they are not looking at a merge mail and perhaps read the thing, which is what you want, right?

Dana

PS if you really feel you have to guess, guess male. Women get over being thought male better than men get over being thought female.

> Patrick, incredible observation.  I don't mind being called
> Chunshen Li instead of Li Chunshen because as they say, "When in Rome
> do as Romans do", reflection of individualism or a sign of
> individualism, but being naughty once at a party, I said, in China,
> surname goes first because without fathter/mother where's the son or
> daughter hence sequentially father/mother son|daughter.
>
> Don
>
> >Perhaps this kind of question would be best addressed to a business
> >consultant. For example if you have both names you could use both e.g.
> Dear
> >Chunshen Li, or should it be Li Chunshen? :-)
> >
> >Patrick
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Chunshen (Don) Li
> >
> >
> >Deanna, I see what you are saying, however, I don't think pure logic
> would
> >work in the business setting.  If people address me by "Dear
> Potential
> >Customer", it turns me off, you, no?
> >
> >
> >
> >Outbound email scanned for viruses.
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