* s. keeling <keel...@nucleus.com>: > 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
If you use http://automx.org setting up a new account is a matter of seconds. And as for UCE: You get what you pay for. Go to freemail providers and, well, judge for yourself. Keeping UCE out of mailboxes is no rocket science. > 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. If SMSes were 2k characters long it would be the same. That's a limitiation introduced by device. I - personally - still believe the only thing these devices are good at is transmitting and receiving voice aka phone calls. p@rick -- state of mind () http://www.state-of-mind.de Franziskanerstraße 15 Telefon +49 89 3090 4664 81669 München Telefax +49 89 3090 4666 Amtsgericht München Partnerschaftsregister PR 563
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