Heck, I write e-mails based on the assumption that people don&#x27;t read them.  It is sadly quite common for people whose sole job it is to read and reply to my e-mails (e.g. customer support) to read only the first few words of the first few paragraphs, generally stopping after the first noun and verb in each.<p>I find that those are the same people who tend to write content-free walls of text.  No wonder they only read the upper-left-hand corner of e-mails, that&#x27;s the only part of what they write that&#x27;s worth reading.