[time-nuts] Faster than light of a different type

[Hal Murray]

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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