On 23.03.2009, at 21:31, Andreas Fink wrote: > On 23.03.2009, at 18:28, Rainer Duffner wrote: >> Michael Naef schrieb: >>> On Monday 23 March 2009, Rainer Duffner wrote: >>> [..] >>>> People can survive without email >>> >>> I am tempted to doubt that. The reactions to mail outage suggest >>> the contrary ;-) >> Well, it depends. >> I survived a week without email on my holiday. >> ;-) >> But our customers' business sort-of depends on email-availability, >> yes. >> >> Can you eat/drink email? >> Can you breath email? >> Can you email the garbage away? >> ;-) >> >> Nope, it's fully virtual. >> Email's non-availability is only an issue, if you're the only one >> without it. >> If everybody else didn't have it, it wouldn't be such a problem. > Whole industries depend on it. Without e-mail my business would be > dead. In todays world communication is a vital issue to the service > industry.
The question I usually ask people is: "If I gave you a choice between taking down your email-system or your PBX, what would you choose?" Everyone says to kill the phones. I think that's a good measure of relevance. Chris _______________________________________________ swinog mailing list swinog@lists.swinog.ch http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog
