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If you are making a request of someone with whom you are not in regular contact, it is good etiquette to start with a salutation. Therefore, "no hello" is bad a

If you are making a request of someone with whom you are not in regular contact, it is good etiquette to start with a salutation. Therefore, "no hello" is bad advice. "Inline hello," as the article suggests, is better advice. But even there, the mechanics of whether the request comes in one long message or broken up is just not that important in the grand scheme of things...

kelnos 8y ago
> the mechanics of whether the request comes in one long message or broken up is just not that important Yes, it is. If you put "hello" in one message, and then follow up with a question some time later, you've possibly interrupted someone twice. If you put both in the same message, you've interrupted them once. This may not bother you if you're on the receiving end of it, and that's fine. But it does bother me, and I wish people -- especially people who are asking for a bit of my time -- would get this and do me the courtesy of being respectful of my time. Because that's what we're talking about, right? Being respectful and socially-aware when initiating communication with someone? There is no one-size-fits-all approach to communicating with different people.