>> I think we can succeed in using mail for clarification (like we're
>> doing now). We all just have to be willing to look stupid now and
>> then.
> One picture often says more than a 1000 words.
Pictures can be sent (by reference, one hopes) over mailing lists as
well. But it's more than that; it can be a lot more efficient to
learn by watching someone talk about a topic than by reading about it.
Otherwise college lectures would have died soon after the printing
press came into vogue.
Still, I think the tradeoff is in favor of not having presentations
during meeting time, with the occasional exception. There is a whole
lot more non-meeting-time out there than meeting time; therefore,
making people do an hour's worth of reading to save twenty minutes'
worth of in-meeting presentation is probably a good thing.
