Wow...This blog has been neglected for so long. In the effort to revive this blog back, I am sharing this post which I have posted in FB a while ago... Hope I can maintain the survival of this blog...😅
In
my line of work, I received numerous emails everyday. Some of the
emails were from students, sending their assignments, thesis, research
data, presentation slides etc. Sometimes these emails lacked etiquettes
which annoyed me. Below are some of the reasons:
1. No subject
No idea what the email is about. I have to open the email and read the message.
2. No subject, no message, only attachment.
This
is the worst. Don't know what the email is about. Nothing to read when I
open the email. I have to open the attachment to see. Normally I will
immediately delete these kind of emails, for fear of spam or virus.
3. There's subject with attachment but no message
I
can guess the content of the attachment by looking at the subject. But I
would love to read some sort of greetings or introduction of the
sender. As well as some description of what the sender is sending.
Should at least write
Dear Prof,
This is so and so from so and so... Attached is so and so....
Or
Salam,
Dilampirkan dokumen itu dan ini....
4. Message in the subject
This
is amusing. Must be a blunder and done accidentally. In the subject
area, I sometimes encountered 'Dear Prof, this is so and so...' 
5. Funny email addresses
I
think most of us have to bear the embarrassment from the first email
address we have created. When we first created the email account, we
didn't think of the future, where we need to send and receive official
emails. So sometimes I encountered these funny email addresses and it
really amused me. Reminds me of my own first email address... 
Of
course there are other etiquettes of writing emails, such as not to
overuse capital letters or exclamation marks and to reply emails sent to
you promptly or timely.
Oopps..... I think I have some emails which need responding... 
