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> I'm a deeply introverted person That there might be why you haven't learnt to hate Email (or other forms of asynchronous communication). If you want to learn
by harryf 11y ago
> I'm a deeply introverted person
That there might be why you haven't learnt to hate Email (or other forms of asynchronous communication). If you want to learn to hate, try running a few mildly successful Open Source projects. Or try participating in other lame company flame email thread.
The fundamental problem with email (and other forms of asynchronous electronic comms including Github pull requests and Facebook messages) is there's little burden on the sender. The entire burden is carried by the recipient. It's too easy for the sender to turn impulse into wasting someone else's time. Snail mail at least costs a stamp and a trip to the letter box.
TLDR: Right now email doesn't scale
- overgard 11y agoSynchronous communication costs just as little, and it's vastly more disruptive. I've done all the things you mention, I guess the fact that I can easily turn off email makes me not care. Sure someone can callously waste my time with an email.. And I can callously delete it. Plus, if I think an email is a waste of time, I can just not respond.
- cortesoft 11y agoIt really isn't that much of a burden to ignore an email.
- baudehlo 11y agoEmail has been scaling just fine for years. And I've run some reasonably successful open source projects (including SpamAssassin at the height of its success). I really don't see the problem. The fact that an email is easy to send without knowing the recipient is a huge benefit of email. No other electronic communication system offers this benefit (and unfortunately it enables spam, but that's an entirely different discussion).
- kshitijl 11y agoThe whole point is that it enables spam, broadly interpreted to include unsolicited mail of all kinds.