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From: purves@muddcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Letter Salutations
Message-ID: <384@muddcs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 29-Mar-86 15:17:39 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 29 15:17:39 1986
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
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Several interesting suggestions have been made as to salutations
directed at unknown parties.  This is a problem I have often
faced.  My solution is one that I regard as simple and, well,
ELEGANT:  if I don't know who/what I am writing to, I simply
don't use any salutation at all!  It seems to me that this is
unlikely to offend, whereas some of the "alternative" salutations
that have been offered here DO offend some people--myself included.
Note that very few contributions to the net (or to e-mail in general)
begin with salutations...

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Bill Purves                              (714) 621-8021                 
Depts. of Biology and Computer Science   {cepu,ihnp4,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!purves
Harvey Mudd College                      purves@LOCUS.UCLA.EDU
Claremont, CA 91711                      
      "Those Who Are Ignorant of Biology Are Destined to Repeat It"