OT: The greetings problem

>Mark J. Reed
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 03:40:13PM -0400, Harald Stoiber wrote:
> > Ooooooops! Sorry for that one. As you can easily imagine,
> > I had no idea of the bad taste of "greetings". ;-)
>
> The word "greetings" has no bad connotation for me, or for
> most English speakers - just American males of a certain age.
> The more important point was that it's only used for "hello",
> never for "good-bye". :)
I was about say, I guess I'm too young for it to have a negative connotation
(for me).  :)