In a word: NO.
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On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 9:16 AM Ken Hohhof <af...@kwisp.com> wrote:
> Would you pay $30/month for an invitation-only email app for power email
> users?
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> https://www.fastcompany.com/90260656/beyond-gmail-the-new-race-to-reinvent-your-inbox
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> *From:* AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On Behalf Of *Nate Burke
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 2, 2019 10:25 AM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette
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> I've often thought of that as a million-dollar-app idea. Wouldn't even
> have to pull the phone out of your pocket to get new messages, just feel
> the vibration. To send a message just reach in and push the side button.
> Just think of the potential for cheating in school...
>
> On 7/1/2019 7:18 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote:
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> If there was a morse code app that allowed you to send texts with a morse
> bug I would use that.
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> *From:* Chuck Macenski
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> *Sent:* Monday, July 1, 2019 6:13 PM
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> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
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> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette
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> I end up using voice recognition to keep up with my kids when texting.
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> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 6:45 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> One of my nieces texts so fast, they are incoming in a chain almost faster
> than I can read. I think she texts faster than she talks. Naw. She talks
> fast too...
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> bp
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> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
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> On 7/1/2019 4:24 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
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> I’m amazed when I send someone a text message and receive a response
> within 5 seconds. In that time they realized they had a message, read it,
> decided on a reply, typed it probably with 2 thumbs, and sent it, plus
> propagation time through the phone network twice. And this is probably
> while they were at work, or driving. Now, that’s real time. Probably too
> real time. Back in the written communication era, you would put the letter
> in the desk drawer overnight before sending it. Email has a Drafts folder,
> so you can think about it and maybe do some editing or not send it at all.
> But texts don’t have a Drafts folder, just a Send button. No Oops button
> either.
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> *From:* AF mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> *On
> Behalf Of *ch...@wbmfg.com
> *Sent:* Monday, July 1, 2019 5:56 PM
> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group mailto:af@af.afmug.com
> <af@af.afmug.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette
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> Text? What is this text you speak of...
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> I tell my kids I love email because of its real time nature...
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> *From:* Matt Corcoran
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> *Sent:* Monday, July 1, 2019 3:36 PM
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> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
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> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette
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> You think writing Etiquette is bad. How about reading Etiquette. I
> find when you send a clean point by point list via email. Half the time
> people only respond to the first point and dump the rest.
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> Some people think email is just another way to text.
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> *From: *AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> on behalf of Lewis Bergman <
> lewis.berg...@gmail.com>
> *Reply-To: *AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
> *Date: *Monday, July 1, 2019 at 10:45 AM
> *To: *AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <af@af.afmug.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] OT: Email Etiquette
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> It's funny. Many people are hyper sensative about privacy, but when their
> internet breaks, they believe you should be able to read their minds, know
> everything about their issue, and be able to devine anything else that
> might have happened in or around their property that might have caused the
> issue.
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> I also find the older people get, the less they seem to remember that
> whoever they are communicting with, no matter the method, may not have any
> context for the conversation. Many times, the conversation they were having
> was in their own head.
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> Before my father died I remember an email he sent to a model airplane
> supplier he purchased a lot of product from. It basically went something
> like this:
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> "I got this order in late and some stuff was missing and another thing was
> broken. Can you make this right? Thanks". He probably ordered 5 times a
> month from this company. There is no way they could have been anything but
> confused.
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> My dad was well spoken and intelligent and wrote email like he was a
> drunken toddler.
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> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 8:50 AM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think there are a couple of issues. First, people who attempt to use
> email on their phone with some crappy email interface can barely
> actually send the email, let alone leave any identifiable information.
>
> Second is people who are not even slightly technical who just don't know
> how to use email. E.g.: We have a neighbor with whom we share a private
> road. He will dig up an email string from 3 years ago and "reply all",
> even though the subject line is 3 years old and has nothing to do with
> what he's talking about today.
>
> IOW, I don't think it's so much etiquette as it is ignorance.
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>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 7/1/2019 4:08 AM, Nate Burke wrote:
> > So I've noticed a slide recently of what I would consider 'Email
> > Etiquette' Customers send an email with no subject line. Or reply to
> > an old email, with a new topic. EG: our billing system sends out
> > automated invoices. A customer will just reply to one of those
> > emails, weeks later, with a service issue. Doesn't bother to change
> > the subject line or anything. Another common email is just an email
> > with the text "my internet is down" No name/address/phone, anything
> > else identifiable. sometimes the email they use is in our system and
> > we can find it that way, other times not.
> >
> > At some point I must have learned how to use email, I'm guessing
> > people no longer learn that.
> >
> > And don't get me started on the people that text the main office
> > number. I mean, we do get the SMS messages, but again, usually it's
> > just a text like 'Internet is not working' With nothing else to know
> > who it is.
> >
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