No hello – please don't just say hello in chat

Re:No hello – please don't just say hello in chat by ghusto on Friday March 11, 2022 @01:32PM (#30644030)

Err, actually yes, I didn't realise but it is :)

While we're all venting: How's about when you're writing a considerate reply that takes a while because it's a complicated answer, and they just blooming fire off another random message in the middle, destroying thread chronology!

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Re:No hello – please don't just say hello in chat by unfocussed_mike on Friday March 11, 2022 @02:12PM (#30644645)

There are so many things like this that are challenges we just have to suck up.

Like, how do you write a multi-stage message where multiple stages are absolutely unavoidable, without the recipient answering just the first bit and not reading the rest?

I really struggle with it. (Because I am verbose. Overly verbose.)

But I try to frame that request in the context of each message.

Whereas someone I know has basically a copied and pasted demand letter at the top of each email, saying he won't reply unless people have read the whole thing. It's not as cute as the legendary Van Halen rider M&Ms request [0], and it just comes across as damaging.

[0]: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/van-halens-lege...

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