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Umm, proceed and persist sounds better imo.
“Cease and desist” has nice assonance, I feel “pursue and persist” matches a little more in that regard, though both are decent.
As regards meaning, “proceed” and “pursue” are both good, taking slightly different angles but to essentially the same purpose.
> A official-looking legal letter [...] Surprise someone Having received actual legal letters before, my personal experience is that I would much rather receive normal looking holiday cards to encourage me in continuing whatever I was doing, rather than being surprised by official-looking letters. It might be different if this service offered help in other ways, but currently it seems like a practical joke of dubious…
Depends. I would be spooked and frightened but then I would be delighted.
It's a clever concept, but I'm leery of having someone send a letter on my behalf to someone. You all haven't trademarked the idea, have you? I think I'll just write a few of these up myself and send them out.
Also, I don't actually have a physical mailing addresses for people I would like to send something like this to, like maintainers for my favorite open source projects.
As someone who is coming to increasingly believe that 99% of the world problems are caused by powers seeking to intentionally divide us one from the other, I cannot tell you how much joy this brings me to see. I wish you great success in this effort, however small it might appear to be in the scheme of things.
Gratitude goes a long way. My job puts me on the receiving end of a lot of gratitude, and I absolutely adore it. It's one of the main perks of the job. After experiencing it, I have become a lot more lavish in my praise, and frequently email people to thank them for their work. Most of them are very appreciative of it, especially when they make their work freely available.
>> I’ve done this about 20 times. I never got a response only once or twice, but the rest responded warmly. Many of these people have turned into friends. We actually call each other on the phone and shoot the shit. A couple of them have even turned into best friends.
more here: https://sive.rs/2020-04-email
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When I owned a small business every letter from the IRS, no matter how benign, was nightmare inducing. Never got anything serious from them as most were “we’ve update some random piece of info on your profile” notifications, but still made me nervous every time.
Wouldn't anything really, really legal be recorded delivery?
On a few occasions I’ve called the phone number on a professional vehicle’s “how’s my driving?” bumper sticker to report the driver for good driving. It’s always a fun experience.
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Gratitude goes a long way. My job puts me on the receiving end of a lot of gratitude, and I absolutely adore it. It's one of the main perks of the job. After experiencing it, I have become a lot more lavish in my praise, and frequently email people to thank them for their work. Most of them are very appreciative of it, especially when they make their work freely available.
>> I’ll contact someone if I loved their book or music or work. I’ll find a way to contact the author or the creator and say, “Holy shit. That was brilliant. I loved it. This was amazing. Count me as a fan.” >> I’ve done this about 20 times. I never got a response only once or twice, but the rest responded warmly. Many of these people have turned into friends. We actually call each other on the phone and shoot the sh…
To tie the back to a HN context - this works great for academic papers. I've had some great email exchanges from original authors including a few people I've absolutely idolised. Turns out they're human too.