Interesting comment
Hi Chris
Good letter to the editor, your point about the lose of civility in e-mail is on point. But the lose of contact with people you enjoy hearing from is to me even worse. I am just now getting over a major computer and internet connection problem, which caused no e-mail, sporadic and unreliable e-mail connection. I could neither receive or send e-mails reliably and to be very frank I missed the contact with people. Four days without MLU was a real lose.
But back to your point, e-mails are a lot like getting people to think before they speak, e-mails could and can be a good means of communication if people will only take the great opportunity to reread what they say before hit send.
Maybe you have the makings of the next great software advance for electronic communication, an app which holds all messages for 5 minutes, then comes back at you reads the message to you and asks do you really want to send this?
Cheers Phil
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