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Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 10:26 PM UTC

yeukhon wrote: post #27

Interestingly, 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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Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)

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Post by vacri » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 10:29 PM UTC

gaving wrote: post #2

"I have a wonderful secretary who looks at the incoming mail and separates out anything that she knows I've been looking forward to seeing urgently." Ding ding ding.

Yeah, the take-home (takehome?) message in this essay is "have a meatspace spamfilter and things are peachy".

Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)

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Post by Xylakant » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 10:33 PM UTC

eberfreitas wrote: post #36

rdl wrote: post #4

I 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...

In German "Email" means enamel, so the blessed spelling is E-Mail.

Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)

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Post by nielsbjerg » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 10:33 PM UTC

ohwp wrote: post #18

Startup opportunity: Secretary, a service that reads your incoming e-mail and holds unimportant e-mail to release it to your inbox every 3 months...

And when the machine learning algorithm gets it wrong after lots of right predictions, you find out that someone forgot to renew your domain the hard way. Even googles tabbed inbox makes me miss things, since glancing at the main inbox revealed nothing of importance.. It's not for me at least.

Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)

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Post by nielsbjerg » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 10:33 PM UTC

ohwp wrote: post #18

Startup opportunity: Secretary, a service that reads your incoming e-mail and holds unimportant e-mail to release it to your inbox every 3 months...

And when the machine learning algorithm gets it wrong after lots of right predictions, you find out that someone forgot to renew your domain the hard way. Even googles tabbed inbox makes me miss things, since glancing at the main inbox revealed nothing of importance.. It's not for me at least.

Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)

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Post by jakobe » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 10:34 PM UTC

nicky0 wrote: post #16

simplexion wrote: post #12

Massive douche.

I love that you just called Donald Knuth a massive douche. That is all.

Kids, these days.

Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)

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Post by lstamour » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 10:34 PM UTC

yeukhon wrote: post #27

Interestingly, 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…

Don't forget realtime ;-) I suppose that could be clarified to "realtimes".

That said, I never wrote "E-mail" with a hyphen, though I still can't stop myself from capitalizing Internets.

Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)

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Post by yeukhon » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 10:40 PM UTC

lstamour wrote: post #47

yeukhon wrote: post #27

Interestingly, 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…

Don't forget realtime ;-) I suppose that could be clarified to "realtimes". That said, I never wrote "E-mail" with a hyphen, though I still can't stop myself from capitalizing Internets.

There is a difference between Internet and internet when we refer to the Internet as we know it today. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet#Terminology but yeah :3

Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)

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Post by Urgo » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 10:40 PM UTC

What I'd love to see is dropping the www.

Re: Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)

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Post by mikejchin » Sat, Mar 01, 2014, 10:44 PM UTC

my_username_is_ wrote: post #9

dsirijus wrote: post #6

I 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.

Our landing page is a bit silly (it was a hackathon project), but my company made Inbox Pause (http://inboxpause.com), which works by automating the creation and deletion of Gmail filters at scheduled times. If you aren't comfortable with installing an extension on top of Gmail, you can also try it on your own with the same filters manually.