> reply with something like, "I don't read long emails" and suggest that the author find time to meet with me directly. Everyone you suggested that to thinks

> reply with something like, "I don't read long emails" and suggest that the author find time to meet with me directly. Everyone you suggested that to thinks you are a dick. They spent half an hour or more writing just so you can absorb the information asynchronously at your convenience rather than having to schedule yet-another meeting and take notes -- and then you want to waste another half-hour of their time because you can't be bothered reading.