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Subject:Re: say please From:"Mark L. Levinson" <mark -at- MEMCO -dot- CO -dot- IL> Date:Sun, 14 Jun 1998 10:44:23 +0300
Joseph van Oss asked a couple of days ago about when to say
please.
Our policy at Memco is that there is no need to ask the user to
"please" follow our operational instructions. The user is not doing
us a favor by following them. Not following them will only get the
the user in trouble. We would say "please" when asking the user
to do something for our own benefit; for example, "If you have a
comment on our icon art, please contact Memco."
(Incidentally, we also do not congratulate the user on buying
our product and we do not "welcome" the user to it as if it were
a steakhouse.)
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