First impression by email

Arthur Schpenhaure, a German philosopher, said:
"To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them."

Translated to modern life where IRL is a rarity and communcation is preferably done in any other way than in a physical meeting, I think the opposite is more relevant:
"To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have from the email when you first meet them."

The amount of information you get in an email from someone you don't know is so much more than the sender probably intended.

On top of the minus list the following very common characteristics are found:

• Spelling mistakes
  Laziness or pure ignorance? Equally bad
• Excessive use of either exclamation marks or dot dot dot...
  Complete lack of wittiness
• Ending message to someone you don't know with "love" or "hugs"
  Don't think so
  

If an IRL meeting helps? Don't know, I'm too put off by bullet point number one to even get there. But I guess there is always the possibility that the writer in question is dyslectic and that I'm missing out on a great person for the wrong reason.