Butch Malahide wrote:
> On Nov 6, 12:14 pm, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"
> <seaw
...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
>> Butch Malahide wrote:
>>> On Nov 5, 1:22 pm, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"
>>> <seaw
...@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
>>>> Email being "a frivolous misuse of computing resources with no
>>>> practical application".
>>> Still, email isn't all it's cracked up to be.
>> Email is one of the core and essential parts of both of my jobs, the
>> best way to get hold of me for any important work, automatically is a
>> record of what I do and have done and need to do -- it combines the
>> advantages of FTF conversation and phone.
> Very interesting. The point of my posting, though, was the link you
> deleted, to the page of a computer science god, one of whose lesser
> claims to fame is that he doesn't use email.
It is not a surprise that some people (even in compsci) may choose to
not use any given innovation. The fact that they choose to not avail
themselves of email does not in any way prove your assertion that "email
isn't all it's cracked up to be". I consider it possibly the single
greatest innovation in communication since the telephone. I certainly
get more use out of it. We had instant messaging, BBS's, and Email back
in 1977, when I first started using the nom du net "Sea Wasp", and of
these, BBS's have fallen by the wayside and then re-emerged as things
like LiveJournal, Facebook, etc., instant messaging disappeared and then
resurfaced, and Email just kept chugging along, going from "the sysop
deleted the Mail app because it wastes system resources, we have to code
it back in" to "well, it's a frill we allow" to "I can't get my work
done without it".
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Sea Wasp
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