On 1/14/19 1:49 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
And you won't really have a choice because unless you're willing to go full Ted Kaczynski one in a hundred of those emails will be very, very important to you ...
Yeah. E-mail remains the only scheme where the two parties don't have to be introduced first, don't have to be online at the same time, and you can check for it in one place (if you want to, or you can sort and file to your heart's content.)
I've stopped being surprised that enthusiasts who tell me that the IM or online conferencing silver bullet du jour will kill e-mail never understand this.
Tell me about it. Originally, the Internet was built specifically to foster collaboration - open, interoperable protocols that work just fine across organizational boundaries. Ever since the net went commercial, we've been seeing more and more walled gardens - driven by folks with an economic advantage to segmenting & capturing audiences. Whenever someone talks about how great some new technology is, I'm always reminded to "follow the money." (And ain't it ironic that Microsoft supports calendaring protocols, while Google breaks them.) -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra