I can't tell if there is any emotion (sadness) associated with those rules, but I've found, sadly, that those and more apply to business email. It didn't use to

I can't tell if there is any emotion (sadness) associated with those rules, but I've found, sadly, that those and more apply to business email. It didn't use to be that way, but now that folks don't even know what bottom posting is, much less are able to discuss the merits: - one idea per email - exec summary must be first ... don't lay out a case then summarize at the end - only 1 question per email if it's more complex than that, you need to break it up into a kind of detective clue-hunting trap sequence, where you ask each question in turn, in a multiple exchange thread. never try to shortcut it / condense into a single message. - it is acceptable for your signature to be multiples of the body size