It's Time to Give Up on Email
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It's Time to Give Up on Email
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Re: It's Time to Give Up on Email
#2> Email technology wasn’t owned by someone in particular, so anyone could use it. That fact alone should have been foreboding.
So, roughly, "email is another example of the disasters of public standards and the lack of proper commercial stewardship."
As we'd say in usenet days; plonk
Re: It's Time to Give Up on Email
#3> Email technology wasn’t owned by someone in particular, so anyone could use it. That fact alone should have been foreboding. So, roughly, "email is another example of the disasters of public standards and the lack of proper commercial stewardship." As we'd say in usenet days; plonk
You get the irony of using Usenet as your rhetorical device, right? That was deliberate metacommentary?
Re: It's Time to Give Up on Email
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#5> Email technology wasn’t owned by someone in particular, so anyone could use it. That fact alone should have been foreboding. So, roughly, "email is another example of the disasters of public standards and the lack of proper commercial stewardship." As we'd say in usenet days; plonk
You get the irony of using Usenet as your rhetorical device, right? That was deliberate metacommentary?
What commentary would that be? What irony is on display here?
Everything in this article applies to literally every communications media available on the internet. As group discourse moves across protocols and platforms, the same problems occur. I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference between "plonk" and "lol blocked".
Re: It's Time to Give Up on Email
#6Don't use email... use [BLANK] instead?
Re: It's Time to Give Up on Email
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
You get the irony of using Usenet as your rhetorical device, right? That was deliberate metacommentary?
What commentary would that be? What irony is on display here? Everything in this article applies to literally every communications media available on the internet. As group discourse moves across protocols and platforms, the same problems occur. I'm not sure there's a meaningful difference between "plonk" and "lol blocked".
Right, but Usenet died.
Re: It's Time to Give Up on Email
#8Don't use email... use [BLANK] instead?
Literally anything else. Email is a means to an end. Do you use email today as much as you did 10 years ago? Most people would say "no".
Re: It's Time to Give Up on Email
#9Don't use email... use [BLANK] instead?
Literally anything else. Email is a means to an end. Do you use email today as much as you did 10 years ago? Most people would say "no".
Such as? I just can't think of another technology that facilitates the async behavior of email messages. I know some businesses just use WhatsApp but I don't love it. Maybe we would mandate everyone uses Microsoft Teams.
Re: It's Time to Give Up on Email
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Literally anything else. Email is a means to an end. Do you use email today as much as you did 10 years ago? Most people would say "no".
Such as? I just can't think of another technology that facilitates the async behavior of email messages. I know some businesses just use WhatsApp but I don't love it. Maybe we would mandate everyone uses Microsoft Teams.
I talk to friends on Slack, Messenger, Signal, and WhatsApp. I virtually never talk to someone I actually know on email, a trend that started in ~2014 when I discovered Slack.
I do still use email! But only for transactional stuff, like FOIA requests or scheduling local government meetings.