Chuq Von Rospach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Any thoughts?
>
> <http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000820.html>
After a lot of very good comments, Jakob Nielsen writes there:
: Hopefully, mailing lists won't have much of a future. In the
: long term, we need to remove everything from email that is not
: in the nature of personal correspondence.
I disagree here. Personal, one-on-one communication is done more
efficiently via the telephone. The big strengths of email are:
- that you can communicate to many people at the same time, who
can read your message at different times of their own choice
- that the recipients of a message can decide quickly whether
they want to read the message immediately, later or never
- that email can easily be forwarded
- that it is so easy to include content from other text-based
applications
- that you can easily include a few lines of context with a
response
- that you can easily re-use email text for other purposes
: For sure, the communications control panel would collapse
: threads of discussions into a single object and visualize its
: activity in a more useful manner than hundreds of scattered
: lines in your inbox.
What is needed is not to replace mailing lists by such a
"communications control panel", but to improve email clients to
offer the functionality you want.
Mit freundlichen Gr�ssen
Norbert Bollow
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