"Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason." - what he is on about there?
The correct German spelling is E-Mail.
Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
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Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#32"Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason." - what he is on about there?
Email is the French / German / Dutch word for enamel. Of course the pronounciation is very different.
Thanks. The French linguistic equivalent is the shortening of "courrier électronique" to "courriel".
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#33"Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason." - what he is on about there?
Email is the French / German / Dutch word for enamel. Of course the pronounciation is very different.
I am German and I did not know this, was only aware of the alternative form Emaille.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#34I have switched from basically real-time email push correspondence to manual fetch every day or two. Basically, when I feel like it. My mail traffic has dropped from ~50 to 1 to 2 a day. It's hard to say whether it benefited me or not, but I'm sure of one thing - I don't waste time on email anymore.
Does anyone know if its possible to hack GMail such that it only updates your inbox at certain times? I've fallen into a habit of checking it more often than I should (on a computer, both work and personal) and it would certainly help me if the inbox just didn't update with new mail continuously.
ummm how about only navigating to your gmail page when you want to check mail?
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#35I can't read brown on yellow.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#36I just use "mail". email vs. postal mail or physical mail when it needs further disambiguation.
The problem with that is that "email" is an actual word in other languages. In Portuguese, "email" is email, but "mail" means nothing so I guess "email" is a better "global" option...
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#37"Of course, ``email'' has been a familiar word in France, Germany, and the Netherlands much longer than in England --- but for an entirely different reason." - what he is on about there?
For French, he's probably referring to the word "émail", which means "enamel". To my knowledge, the word "email" without an accent does not exist in French.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#38I have switched from basically real-time email push correspondence to manual fetch every day or two. Basically, when I feel like it. My mail traffic has dropped from ~50 to 1 to 2 a day. It's hard to say whether it benefited me or not, but I'm sure of one thing - I don't waste time on email anymore.
Does anyone know if its possible to hack GMail such that it only updates your inbox at certain times? I've fallen into a habit of checking it more often than I should (on a computer, both work and personal) and it would certainly help me if the inbox just didn't update with new mail continuously.
"Does anyone know if its possible to hack GMail such that it only updates your inbox at certain times? I've fallen into a habit of checking it more often than I should (on a computer, both work and personal) and it would certainly help me if the inbox just didn't update with new mail continuously."
Not by hacking email, but there should be a way to do that using the following.
enable imap in gmail (pull email from the gmail box every "x" hours).
That email goes into a different box, the one you check whenever you want but it's only updated every "x" hours. So you would quickly realize there is no point in checking that box.
Other ways might include setting up a vps that receives the email but delaying the forwarding to gmail until a specified time. So the vps setup email (using sendmail or whatever) simply holds and forwards to gmail every "x" hours.
I'd have to think this through but there is definitely a way using various unix tools, smtp, cron, imap to do something like this. (Probably many ways for sure).
So in other words you are either grabbing from gmail to another mail host every "x" hours (and then possibly forwarding to another gmail box) or you are sending all mail to another mail host (and then sending it to gmail).
If you don't need gmail in particular there are probably a few ways to do this with shell scripting and knowledge of smtp, imap, cron etc.
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#39It's off topic, but I think it's funny that he equates email with immediacy. We choose to treat it as such, but some of us don't. One of the few habits I kept from GTD was disabling email alerts, and my life is significantly less stressful at work because of it. It took a little bit for my coworkers to grok, but they prefer I get stuff done, and respect the fact that I can't if I'm continually interrupted. I parse my at regular intervals during the day, but only when I'm completed with a period of focus. I may not take long hours of "studying and uninterruptible concentration," but being a developer does require periods of focus that email can disrupt.
On topic - I haven't called it "e-mail" since the 90s, and usually just call it 'mail.'
Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)
#40Interestingly, this is still a style choice. Just a few more to consider: * webpage vs web page * website vs web site * lifestyle vs life style * Asian-American vs Asian American * e-commerce vs ecommerce * cannot vs can not * real-time vs real time (as one of the comments in this thread). http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/e-mail-or... http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/21/us-britain-hyphen-... h…
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