Sure, much of it is spam and most of that never sees the light of my inbox since I use a filter that shunts the most obvious into the bit bucket. But aside from the spam I still get a lot of email. Now before any of you get riled I'm not saying that my recommendations about email usage are gospel. I'm just making some suggestions that I think might help people who are new to the email game. First let's contemplate the email message itself.
Email is the electronic equivalent of writing a letter and sending it to someone in the post.
This is good as far as it goes. Unfortunately the speed and ease with which email lets us reach out and touch someone, seems to have helped make it a lot more impersonal than the letter we all learned how to craft in school. Things get lost in our hurry to hit the send button. Like a greeting, punctuation, whole sentences, paragraphs. Basic stuff that makes your communications easier for the recipient to figure out.