[soc.women] Non-sexist Greetings

ark@alice.UucP (Andrew Koenig) (09/24/86)

>	I have had occaision to need a salutation other than "gentlmen:"
>	and finally settled on "Dear Sir or Madam,". It is the only one
>	I've found acceptable in business correspondence to persons of
>	unknown sex.

For many years, I have been writing letters without any salutation
at all:


					1234 Some Place
					Anytown, NJ
					Octember 34, 1987

R. F. Ingram
Confabulated Widgets, Inc.
1 Super-Duper Executive Plaza
Impressive City, Il


I am writing to complain about the Mark 7 widget I received from
your firm last week.


			[ and so on ]



			Sincerely,



			Andrew Koenig