I get this kind of "Hello" message all the time. Also popular are "Are you there?" or "$FIRST_NAME ?". It's one of the reasons why I much prefer e-mail to chat.

I get this kind of "Hello" message all the time. Also popular are "Are you there?" or "$FIRST_NAME ?". It's one of the reasons why I much prefer e-mail to chat. With e-mail, people have to actually formulate a question before hitting "send".