On 1/14/19 1:49 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
And you won't really have a choice because unless you're willing to go
full Ted Kaczynski one in a hundred of those emails will be very, very
important to you ...
Yeah. E-mail remains the only scheme where the two parties don't have
to be introduced first, don't have to be online at the same time, and
you can check for it in one place (if you want to, or you can sort and
file to your heart's content.)
I've stopped being surprised that enthusiasts who tell me that the IM
or online conferencing silver bullet du jour will kill e-mail never
understand this.
Tell me about it.
Originally, the Internet was built specifically to foster collaboration
- open, interoperable protocols that work just fine across
organizational boundaries.
Ever since the net went commercial, we've been seeing more and more
walled gardens - driven by folks with an economic advantage to
segmenting & capturing audiences. Whenever someone talks about how
great some new technology is, I'm always reminded to "follow the
money." (And ain't it ironic that Microsoft supports calendaring
protocols, while Google breaks them.)
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
