[time-nuts] Faster than light of a different type
Hal Murray
hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Tue May 8 05:07:39 UTC 2012
jimlux at earthlink.net said:
> I wonder if the nature of email and how it gets read has any effect on
> usenet lists.
> Think back to expensive dialup days.. you'd dial up, download the batch,
> and then hangup. So you'd go through all the mail (almost like a digest)
> before responding.
I think that depends upon the individual. Do you scan everything before
responding, or do you process (and respond) to messages one at a time as you
first read them?
> Now zap forward and you're reading on an iPhone, which tends to promote a
> more "interactive" style of usage.
Are smart phone mail GUIs buggy/broken? Do they show you that there are N
more messages in this thread before you get a chance to respond?
Maybe we need to beat on people with phones and get them to wait until they
get home to a real mail system before they respond to anything that will go
to a large list. How about politely rejecting anything that includes "Sent
from my xxxx" unless there is a magic word in the Subject?
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