Salutations
Because there aren’t enough things about which to be neurotic, here’s a list of rules governing salutations in emails. Though I’m going to continue to ignore their suggestions, I have to approve of any document that references both Twitter and A Guide to Letter Writing for Ladies (1898). In terms of comprehensiveness, though, it’s still got nothing on Shapiro and Anderson’s 1985 classic, Towards an Ethics and Etiquette for Electronic Mail (pdf, 1.8 MB).
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