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I disagree with the motive of lowering the friction to send email. I want to spend less time answering email by receiving less of it. Anything that makes it eas

I disagree with the motive of lowering the friction to send email. I want to spend less time answering email by receiving less of it. Anything that makes it easier to generate more email means I will receive more email. I think using email to shoot off "quick questions" (such as the message depicted on the page) to people is an abuse of the medium - that's what Twitter and iChat are for.

MiguelHudnandez 16y ago
This is a good point. One of my pet peeves is receiving mail with poorly thought-out subjects. Whether it's a phrase that doesn't mean anything to the recipient, or something that's incomplete as a summary of the contents. Often it's a sentence fragment, such as "Can you," followed by a continuation of the sentence in the body.