Neither of the authors can have ever felt the joy of having an e-mail partner at work: someone with one can engage in an endless ping-pong game of repartee.

• 对于写作风格的问题，他们的一些严格规则与我自己的偏好不谋而合，但我仍不赞成，理由是，电邮应该和发送它们的人一样各不相同。