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randusernametoday at 1:59 PM2 repliesview on HN

> generational difference

I feel squeezed in the middle between antsy-verbose zoomer emailers and terse boomer emailers that hit me with ambiguous 5 word replies or those godforsaken emojii email reacts.

My decree is that 95% of emails should be three sentences double-spaced. 5% should be paragraphs. Hypertext is permissible almost entirely because of quote formatting, which should be used liberally so that each email is as self-contained as possible.


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1313ed01today at 2:09 PM

You do not need hypertext to prefix lines with "> ".

Sharlintoday at 2:46 PM

Verbose zoomers and super-terse boomers? I'd expect the opposite, if anything.