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<h1>Communication Guidelines</h1>
<p><a href="/contact.html">A few ways to contact me</a></p>
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These are some general recommendations that I believe make communicating with me, at least, easier and/or more effective, including communication conventions that make me happier. Please note that what I prefer may not be what others prefer and shall not be treated as a general guideline for communications.
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<li>Write a descriptive subject for emails. Do not send emails with an empty subject or no subject header. The subject should be give the receiver a brief idea of what the email is about.</li>
<li>Send complete information. When telling me something or requesting something, please provide complete background information, knowledge required, and other relevant context. This prevents back-and-forth communication along the lines of ``and now I need to know ... but you didn't tell me that so can you please give that to me''. Providing context defragments conversations which increases efficiency.</li>
<li>When using instant messaging such as IRC, do not split one sentence into multiple messages. Fragmentation reduces readability.</li>
<li>Do not use excessive emojis.</li>
<li>Be direct. As the sender, do not use polite expressions like ``you did quite well in that presentation'' when in reality, the sender believes that the presentation is not ``quite well''. Direct critique and suggestions are very welcome here. Politeness is acceptable if it does not interfere with honest conveying of information.</li>
<li><a href="./ask.html">Don't ask to ask.</a></li>
<li>Use plain text email. Both hard-wrapped and non-hard-wrapped emails are acceptable. If you do hard-wrap, please wrap at 72 characters for English. Chinese, if hard-wrapped, should be at 36 characters. Non hard-wrapped emails should <a href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3676.txt">specify format=flowed as per RFC3676</a>.</li>
<li>Interweave the original message with the response when replying to an email and remove irrelevant parts (i.e. greetings, closings, signatures, etc.) of the quoted original email.</li>
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Please note that <a href="./wechat.html">WeChat is not a preferred way of contacting me</a>. <a href="/contact.html">Use these instead</a>.
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