It's not hard to to write or read. They feel disingenuous though. The truth is email's are not like letters. A letter of at least one half a page should be the

It's not hard to to write or read. They feel disingenuous though. The truth is email's are not like letters. A letter of at least one half a page should be the minimum, but an email longer than two paragraphs better be seriously interesting. We've carried over the etiquette of letter writing into a medium where using that etiquette feels much more manufactured.