IDG Contributor Network: Follow the 'no scroll' rule with email

Leave shorter voicemails.— My boss's boss, circa 1995Earlier in my career, my employer used an old voicemail system (Octel, if you are flashing back with me) that, at the start of a voicemail, would report the time a message was sent and who sent it. Nonetheless, one morning I apparently left a message saying, "Hi, it's Paul. I hope you had a good weekend. It's Monday morning at 7, and want to get together this afternoon to talk about <blank>."The response I got back was, "1 p.m. in