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> It is useful and essentially a standard way of communicating by now perfect. beautiful. AMAZING! the smtp crypto situation is a mess, sure, but work email

by a-dub 4y ago

> It is useful and essentially a standard way of communicating by now perfect. beautiful. AMAZING! the smtp crypto situation is a mess, sure, but work emails usually all stay on the same machine or hosting provider anyway. more importantly, it comes from an era before zomg smartphone notifications now now now and as such has respectful communications properties built-in. > Second, there is nothing toxic about scheduling a text. My father is one of the people who never silences his phone, so when he gets a text or call at night he always wakes up. He gets annoyed if it's not urgent, so a scheduled text message in the morning would make him much happier. personal matters are just that and i was referring to work stuff mostly.... buuuuut that said... you should try sending him an e-mail! even if you schedule your text for when he's awake, you're still sending him a demanding interrupt! old people love their e-mails they sit in their big comfy chairs and read them at their leisure with their favorite glasses on with their nice big lamps! he probably will appreciate that even more! if it's urgent and he hasn't responded, THEN you can send an interrupt by giving him a call or sending a text. instead you're instructing robots to steal your dad's attention at some predetermined time in the future while you do something else... do you see the dystopic themes here?

alexeldeib 4y ago
> it comes from an era before zomg smartphone notifications now now now and as such has respectful communications properties built-in. Gmail on iOS certainly will try to notify you for “important” messages. If anything, I think the failure of email in combatting spam is the only thing saving us from the notification-heavy defaults you mentioned. > instead you're instructing robots to steal your dad's attention at some predetermined time in the future while you do something else... do you see the dystopic themes here? Not that different from setting a reminder to send the text yourself…and you’d presumably pick a scheduled send time when you’re also available to reply. But I do agree, it’s marginally more impersonal.

by a-dub 4y ago

alexeldeib 4y ago

> it comes from an era before zomg smartphone notifications now now now and as such has respectful communications properties built-in. Gmail on iOS certainly will try to notify you for “important” messages. If anything, I think the failure of email in combatting spam is the only thing saving us from the notification-heavy defaults you mentioned. > instead you're instructing robots to steal your dad's attention at some predetermined time in the future while you do something else... do you see the dystopic themes here? Not that different from setting a reminder to send the text yourself…and you’d presumably pick a scheduled send time when you’re also available to reply. But I do agree, it’s marginally more impersonal.