Grammar: The Ellipsis

There is no place for the ellipsis in corporate emails. I recently received an email from an executive congratulating the team for a job well done. The message was punctuated with ellipsis'. Here is a sample, "Thanks again for your efforts..."

For those of you who don't know what an ellipsis is, let me enlighten you. According to Wikipedia, an ellipsis is a mark or series of marks that usually indicate an intentional omission of a word or a phrase from the original text. An ellipsis can also be used to indicate a pause in speech, an unfinished thought, or, at the end of a sentence, a trailing off into silence (aposiopesis) (apostrophe and elipsis mixed). The ellipsis calls for a slight pause in speech. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellipsis)

So I guess his intention was to trail off into silence. If it were me, I would want to end an email like that with thunderous applause. I wish there was some sort of grammatical punctuation that signified thunderous applause. Perhaps, I can invent one. Let me introduce you to the exclamatis... ¡¡¡