Would you pay $30/month for an invitation-only email app for power email
users?

 

https://www.fastcompany.com/90260656/beyond-gmail-the-new-race-to-reinvent-y
our-inbox

 

 

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Nate Burke
Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 10:25 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette

 

I've often thought of that as a million-dollar-app idea.  Wouldn't even have
to pull the phone out of your pocket to get new messages, just feel the
vibration.  To send a message just reach in and push the side button.  Just
think of the potential for cheating in school...  

On 7/1/2019 7:18 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com <mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com>  wrote:

If there was a morse code app that allowed you to send texts with a morse
bug I would use that.  

 

From: Chuck Macenski 

Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 6:13 PM

To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette

 

I end up using voice recognition to keep up with my kids when texting. 

 

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 6:45 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com
<mailto:part15...@gmail.com> > wrote:

One of my nieces texts so fast, they are incoming in a chain almost faster
than I can read. I think she texts faster than she talks. Naw. She talks
fast too...

 

bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
 

On 7/1/2019 4:24 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:

I'm amazed when I send someone a text message and receive a response within
5 seconds.  In that time they realized they had a message, read it, decided
on a reply, typed it probably with 2 thumbs, and sent it, plus propagation
time through the phone network twice.  And this is probably while they were
at work, or driving.  Now, that's real time.  Probably too real time.  Back
in the written communication era, you would put the letter in the desk
drawer overnight before sending it.  Email has a Drafts folder, so you can
think about it and maybe do some editing or not send it at all.  But texts
don't have a Drafts folder, just a Send button.  No Oops button either.

 

 

From: AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com On Behalf Of ch...@wbmfg.com
<mailto:ch...@wbmfg.com> 
Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 5:56 PM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group mailto:af@af.afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette

 

Text?  What is this text you speak of...

 

I tell my kids I love email because of its real time nature...

 

From: Matt Corcoran 

Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 3:36 PM

To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group 

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette

 

You think writing Etiquette is bad.   How about reading Etiquette.     I
find when you send a clean point by point list via email.  Half the time
people only respond to the first point and dump the rest.

 

Some people think email is just another way to text.

 

 

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com <mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com> > on
behalf of Lewis Bergman <lewis.berg...@gmail.com
<mailto:lewis.berg...@gmail.com> >
Reply-To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com
<mailto:af@af.afmug.com> >
Date: Monday, July 1, 2019 at 10:45 AM
To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com
<mailto:af@af.afmug.com> >
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette

 

It's funny. Many people are hyper sensative about privacy, but when their
internet breaks, they believe you should be able to read their minds, know
everything about their issue, and be able to devine anything else that might
have happened in or around their property that might have caused the issue. 

 

I also find the older people get, the less they seem to remember that
whoever they are communicting with, no matter the method, may not have any
context for the conversation. Many times, the conversation they were having
was in their own head.

 

Before my father died I remember an email he sent to a model airplane
supplier he purchased a lot of product from. It basically went something
like this:

"I got this order in late and some stuff was missing and another thing was
broken. Can you make this right? Thanks". He probably ordered 5 times a
month from this company. There is no way they could have been anything but
confused.

 

My dad was well spoken and intelligent and wrote email like he was a drunken
toddler.

 

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 8:50 AM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com
<mailto:part15...@gmail.com> > wrote:

I think there are a couple of issues. First, people who attempt to use 
email on their phone with some crappy email interface can barely 
actually send the email, let alone leave any identifiable information.

Second is people who are not even slightly technical who just don't know 
how to use email. E.g.: We have a neighbor with whom we share a private 
road. He will dig up an email string from 3 years ago and "reply all", 
even though the subject line is 3 years old and has nothing to do with 
what he's talking about today.

IOW, I don't think it's so much etiquette as it is ignorance.


bp
<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>

On 7/1/2019 4:08 AM, Nate Burke wrote:
> So I've noticed a slide recently of what I would consider 'Email 
> Etiquette'  Customers send an email with no subject line.  Or reply to 
> an old email, with a new topic.  EG: our billing system sends out 
> automated invoices.  A customer will just reply to one of those 
> emails, weeks later, with a service issue.  Doesn't bother to change 
> the subject line or anything.  Another common email is just an email 
> with the text "my internet is down"  No name/address/phone, anything 
> else identifiable.  sometimes the email they use is in our system and 
> we can find it that way, other times not.
>
> At some point I must have learned how to use email, I'm guessing 
> people no longer learn that.
>
> And don't get me started on the people that text the main office 
> number.  I mean, we do get the SMS messages, but again, usually it's 
> just a text like 'Internet is not working'  With nothing else to know 
> who it is.
>

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