Hi Jan,
On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 18:49:47 -0400GMT (16/04/2001, 06:49 +0800GMT),
Jan Rifkinson wrote:
JR> TB! usese the following precedence:
This is correct. But with all the hype about the templates, I don't
know why people rely on software more than on their human ability to
decide things.
An example of what I mnean: Some members of this group don't use their
first names in their email addresses, or haven't set their real names
in account properties, and thus will not be addressed as "Hello Name".
You can either choose to leave it as "Hello Email-username" or create
an AB entry for this individual. I do neither: whenever I reply to a
message, I actually read my reply before I hit send. If the word after
"Hello " does not look like a first name, I take the trouble and go to
the bottom of the original mail and fill in the appropriate first name
manually; even if I reply relatively often to that person. How many
messages per month is "often" anyway.
What is wrong with that? For me it's a matter of politeness to use the
name of the person, and a matter of laziness that I don't create AB
entries for everyone.
Oh, and when I check the word after "Hello ", I also look at the TO,
CC and BCC fields; therefore I have no problems with folder templates.
I know too much about computers to dare to rely on them. ;-)
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