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Business letters have many purposes and recipients. Despite variations in tone and style, basic parts of a business letter remain standard throughout most business correspondence. This article outlines elements found in standard business letters today, in order, as well as their modern format.

1. Heading. Assuming you are using company letterhead, your full address will already be on page. Add date two spaces below last line of printed copy. If you are using blank paper, add your full address and date in heading. Align heading, and all paragraphs, with left margin(which should be at least one inch wide).

Example: 21 Carson Parkway Boulder, CO 80111 December 3, 2006

2. Inside address. Include recipient's full name, title, and address two spaces below date. Align it with left margin.

Example: Conner T. Walker 2345 Sunrise Avenue Denver, CO 80555

3. Salutation. Two spaces below inside address, and also aligned with left margin, place your salutation, or greeting. If you are on a first name basis with recipient, use her/his first name followed by a colon. If you are writing a more formal letter, use a personal title (Ms., Mr., or Dr.) followed by person's last name and a colon. Use Mr. for men, and Ms. for women. Never use Mrs. or Miss unless a woman has specifically expressed a preference. If you are not sure if recipient is male or female, use a salutation that is appropriate to letter context.

Examples: Mr. Yates: Ms. Dickinson: Dear Customer: Dear Publishing Manager:

4. Body The body of letter should begin two spaces below salutation; all paragraphs should be aligned to left margin. Single space within paragraphs and double space between them.

These days there are plenty of articles on troubling issue of sp^am...plenty of articles and plenty of feedback to these articles.

From all this tortured outpouring general consensus seems to be that most networkers - who accept this necessary evil as an unavoidable consequence of being online - most feel answer to problem lies in 'delete' key.

But while 'delete' key and 'sp^am filters' (which seem to have created more problems than they have solved) are effective means to fight sp^am, these methods do not inform sp^ammer his mail is being deleted and so he/she goes about their merry task happily unaware of any reductions in their 'response rate'.

What if we could add a slight modification to 'deleting and filtering'...

There is every possibility that a sp^ammer may be reaching you with a product you require. What if - in these cases - you visit website MINUS affiliate code, make your purchase and if sp^ammer's email had a contact address, thank him/her for sending you info while also informing them how they have missed their affiliate earnings because they sp^ammed you instead of coming in like genuine and responsible networkers.

This of course will not stop all sp^am because sp^am containing affiliate links is just one small section of huge sp^am 'market' but as word spreads it could deal a 'death-blow' to this section atleast.