Right. But too often, as gregmac said, "people send mass company emails with, for example, new policy or forms attached, and don't post them elsewhere". Email

Right. But too often, as gregmac said, "people send mass company emails with, for example, new policy or forms attached, and don't post them elsewhere". Email should be used for notification and ephemeral communication, and not for information dissemination. In that way it's the same as chat.