On May 17, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Daniel T. Staal wrote:
On Wed, May 17, 2006 12:35 pm, Christopher X. Candreva said:
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Daniel T. Staal wrote:
These days, being out of the office, or town, or country, is no
reason
for you to not be able to get your email, if you felt you needed to.
So, the only reason you aren't responding is that you don't want to.
I would say the problem is people expecting e-mail to be treating
like a
voice conversation with an immediate response.
If you call the office and get a human, they can tell you Joe is on
vacation, someone else can help you. When people got voice mail boxes,
they would put those messages there. E-mail supplimented the phone,
and
that same feature was expected.
Yeah, that's probably a better summation. I never considered email a
successor to the phone: I think of it as a successor to snail mail.
But I
can see how some could think of it that way.
That's where you're both wrong. It's an extension to instant
messaging. Why do you think so many people fail to craft email
messages anymore, instead choosing to top-post some brain fart of two
sentences at the top of a multipage email?
It takes time to make email more readable. But people can't be
bothered to stop and think about things like grammar, spelling,
readability...little details like that.
It's an EXCHANGE based world, people! C'mon and catch up to the rest
of us here, m'kay??
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