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Exactly!
The underlying philosophical issue is the mismatch of using a 1-to-1
communication tool for 1-to-many communication.
The sociological issue is that people don't like changing their habits.
But it isn't an issue for today. In 5 or 10 years time when the tools
have evolved and everyone has become familiar with them in other
contexts (some through spare time activities, some through intranet
deployments and elsewhere) then the change will become inevitable.
As for me, ccp4bb is sufficiently broken for me now that I've
auto-filtered it off to a threaded folder so I can read the bits I want
later, instead of it interferring with 'urgent' email. Works for me, for
now.
Serge Cohen wrote:
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Dear Simon
You mean that it is OK to be 'eMail browsing' just because it is the
window of your mail client; eventually 'loosing' time on subject which
is of no interest to you (or at least which is not 'an important'
subject : the kind you're reading when you have time to spear)?
While it is not OK to spend the same amount of time with browsing the
web...
I guess the thing is that there are also messages which are much more
important to us than the ones from CCP4BB, that's why we're 'hooked' up
on eMail client, hence having CCP4BB as a eMail list is a way to
'parasitise' our behaviour of keeping an eye on the eMails.
I say 'parasitise', because if one's is making consciously the choice
of following up CCP4BB closely, then the time involved is the same
what-ever the window is (eMail vs. WWW browser)...
Now, one point I see in FAVOUR of the eMail, is that (when you're using
a laptop) it is nice to have access to the 'list' without having a IP
connection, hence you can look at 'old' messages you have not looked at
during the day, or even when you're "on the road" you can still benefit
the wisdom of the archives, provided you keep the mail of the BB...
My 2 euro-cents on the subject.
Serge.
