THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

You have to admire someone who plans on responding to every non-spam email he receives.

It bothers me to no end when I read something like this:

Hi, while we’d love to respond to every email, we simply cannot.  But rest assured that we do read each and every one.

I read this as:

Hi, do you know what kind of an important person you are trying to reach?  I made my email address public in case someone equally (or more, if that’s possible) important is trying to reach me.  Even though you need me, I’ll get back to you if I need you.

I’m not going to be one of those people.

I don’t know that you should necessarily admire common decency.  I’d rather you scorn those who don’t practice it.