Sometimes my wife asks me to edit correspondence for her, and I spend a good chunk of time deleting pleasantries. Personally I try and think of "signal to nois

Sometimes my wife asks me to edit correspondence for her, and I spend a good chunk of time deleting pleasantries. Personally I try and think of "signal to noise ratio" and also respecting the recipient's time when communicating with them. Of course it's not good to be terse to the point of being rude.