Timeline for Why do academics frequently write very short email replies?
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| Dec 3, 2015 at 12:39 | comment | added | Joseph | @keshlam - Personally, I think emails and writing comments in a forum are slightly different. Especially when a forum like Stack Exchange discourages greetings and signatures. But each to their own. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 15:53 | comment | added | keshlam | Not irritating or boring, just not their highest priority at the moment, and not in need of any additional data. Terse, not curt. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 15:44 | comment | added | PetrS | I have no problem with email, which doesn't contain salutation, etc. I was just curious why, because sometimes I think that my email is very irritating and boring for person, who receives my email. (I guess on the basis of response to my email.) | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 14:44 | comment | added | keshlam | @joseph: Up to you. Computer science types are notorious for.terseness when it's appropriate, though we'll write In a more formal fashion when more context or exposition is called for. But look at what you've just written -- no salutation or signature on that reply, is there? Like it or not, you've started to adapt. | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 14:34 | comment | added | Joseph | You aren't required to become less formal in your own E-mails, but I suspect that you will, once you get used to it. I certainly won't and I have been dealing with this sort of thing for a good few years :) | |
| Dec 2, 2015 at 14:30 | history | answered | keshlam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |