18.5.05
22:10 Why I don't like e-mails (
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-- This entry is unfinished, but I'm releasing it as I don't find the time to finish it. Maybe I will update it later --- I love e-mails because they allow asynchronous communication with low overhead (no need to write a letter, buy a stamp and go to post office...).
I don't like E-mails because more and more people don't know how to write e-mails:
- no/meaningless subject
- mails are send to large amount of people (CC everybody)
- bad spelling, capitals
- quotation: 80% of people I know answer to mails on top the original mail
- HTML mails: 90% of mails I receive don't need formatting, but people use it, see [2]: dangerous, bandwidth, can connect to the internet by itself, render slowly,
- signatures that are longer than the mail itself
- can't inline code fragments (diff) easily
- unfinished list
Further readings:
[1] E-Mail Etiquette
[2] 7 reasons why HTML e-mail is EVIL!!!
posted by Jean-Marc Autexier |
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