Okay, so I'd like to talk about the etiquette of starting a group email with "Dear Sirs" in the freaking TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
My inclination is to delete any emails I get with that greeting.
You haven't even bothered to try to figure out whether I'm a "Sir," "Madam," or "None of the Above"? Or you're assuming that "Sir" is somehow neutral? Miss me with that nonsense.
Like, anyone who can't find a way out of the shallow linguistic hole of addressing all unidentified persons as dudes with say "Greetings," or "Hello," or "Dear reader," or any one of dozens of such approaches to commonly addressing these? They are either trying not to do better, or trying not to know they need to do better. Neither is a good look.
@design_law definitely not just you! Though it is almost always coming from non-English speakers, and in some foreign countries people were taught that way in school and never corrected, so occasionally it's an honest mistake, but also most of the time it's spam
@kathleenthelaw Yes, so I've noticed the non-English speaking angle before (e.g., mass email to INTA attendees). But I just saw it in a Schedule A email. Attorney from Chicago. Native English speaker as far as I know. Honestly makes the email sound like a scam.
@design_law oh yeah, that absolutely looks like spam, and I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't intentional, because the plaintiffs want people to ignore it and default, right?
@kathleenthelaw I don't know what they want. All I know is that this does not seem to be "reasonably calculated, under all the circumstances, to apprise interested parties of the pendency of the action and afford them an opportunity to present their objections." Mullane v. Cent. Hanover Bank & Tr. Co., 339 U.S. 306, 314, 70 S. Ct. 652, 657, 94 L. Ed. 865 (1950)."
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