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I don't see that as self-centred at all. He is politely explaining how email fits into his schedule and offers you alternatives if you need to speak with him ur

by satysin 11y ago

I don't see that as self-centred at all. He is politely explaining how email fits into his schedule and offers you alternatives if you need to speak with him urgently. That is a lot better than people who get your email but just ignore it for a day or more until you end up sending a "did you get my email". Also RMS replies to a lot of the random emails he gets. Much more than a lot of people who are as well known as him to be fair. Sounds to me like you are just not a big fan of RMS so find a negative in everything he does that isn't quite the norm.

jwilk 11y ago
Huh. Am I the only one around here who thinks that it's completely normal to wait a few days for an email reply?
- digi_owl 11y ago
  Old enough to have done email by way of dialup?
  - TeMPOraL 11y ago
    Probably old enough to learn by experience that you have to fight for the control of your own time and attention. If you get people used to quick replies to any small issue, they will later expect it.
  - greenyoda 11y ago
    Even big computers (e.g., VAXes running Unix) used to transfer e-mail by way of dialup. In the days before everyone had internet access, some hosts would only have intermittent dial-up connections to other hosts, and they'd transfer e-mail over UUCP. If these machines were in underfunded organizations like university departments, they'd make their calls at night when long-distance calls were cheaper. It could take a day or two just for an e-mail to get across the country, and another day or two for the reply to get back. For more on this, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Mail_routing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Mail_routing
    - vidarh 11y ago
      My first access to the web was via UUCP exchange via a local BBS that exchange mail with their upstream 4 times a day, coupled with the CERN mail<->web gateway...
    - digi_owl 11y ago
      Seem very similar to Fidonet.
- ams6110 11y ago
  I tend to do email once a day in the morning when I get to work. I mostly don't look at it again after that unless there's something particularly critical at issue.
- vidarh 11y ago
  I have an ongoing exchange with a guy that's contributed bug fixes to one of my projects where the average response time (both ways) is on the order of months. It's become a standing joke. I have a mail from him sitting in my inbox right now. It's been there a few months - I'm sure I'll reply to it in a month or three.

by satysin 11y ago

jwilk 11y ago

Huh. Am I the only one around here who thinks that it's completely normal to wait a few days for an email reply?

digi_owl 11y ago
Old enough to have done email by way of dialup?
- TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Probably old enough to learn by experience that you have to fight for the control of your own time and attention. If you get people used to quick replies to any small issue, they will later expect it.
- greenyoda 11y ago
  Even big computers (e.g., VAXes running Unix) used to transfer e-mail by way of dialup. In the days before everyone had internet access, some hosts would only have intermittent dial-up connections to other hosts, and they'd transfer e-mail over UUCP. If these machines were in underfunded organizations like university departments, they'd make their calls at night when long-distance calls were cheaper. It could take a day or two just for an e-mail to get across the country, and another day or two for the reply to get back. For more on this, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Mail_routing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UUCP#Mail_routing
  - vidarh 11y ago
    My first access to the web was via UUCP exchange via a local BBS that exchange mail with their upstream 4 times a day, coupled with the CERN mail<->web gateway...
  - digi_owl 11y ago
    Seem very similar to Fidonet.
ams6110 11y ago
I tend to do email once a day in the morning when I get to work. I mostly don't look at it again after that unless there's something particularly critical at issue.
vidarh 11y ago
I have an ongoing exchange with a guy that's contributed bug fixes to one of my projects where the average response time (both ways) is on the order of months. It's become a standing joke. I have a mail from him sitting in my inbox right now. It's been there a few months - I'm sure I'll reply to it in a month or three.