Incoming from Alexander Dahl: > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:51:54AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > But dumbing things down also causes problems. People should learn > > some social graces. Email is one of the basic forms of communication > > in our new electronic world. I think this facade does them no favors. > > This would mean to convince them willingly put time in understanding > mailing lists, choose a sophisticated MUA with reply to list feature > or check and probably change To/Cc in each and every mail. Good luck > with this. I stay with accepting there are dumb people (no offense) > and am happy if they use e-mail at all.
Roger that. The mortals I know think email's old-school/obsolete.
They consider it hard to use, their inboxes are full of UCE (or
worse), and it seems my sister receives my multi-paragraph replies to
her questions on her iPhone, which only displays the first one or two
lines of them. Great.
> Dumb users will probably use some big mail provider without dynamic IP
> addresses.
It's not fair to call them dumb. Not being an IT geek is not the same
thing as being stupid. I wish knew the answer to this conundrum.
Educating them isn't it. They don't want that. Smarter software
isn't either, or mutt would've taken over the world by now.
Mind-machine interface? Not there yet, sadly.
> As long as we have M$ around and this new app developers ignoring RFCs
> and standards, this will be a long lasting dream.
MS has built an empire around flouting RFCs. Don't expect that to
change.
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