Sunday, November 23, 2003

E-mail etiquite

Why is it when someone is writing an e-mail that they appologize for it's length? Would you appologize if you were writing a letter? I assume that the information is useful or relevant to whatever the topic is so if you're writing it, then it's supposedly useful. If it's not useful then why are you writing it? Thus, if you write a long e-mail it's supposedly about something I need to know and it shouldn't matter that it's "long".

Maybe length was an issue when everyone was using a 14.4 kbs modem when a few extra sentences were taxing on the download time. Though now that should not be a problem. I guess it's a product of technology change. That's my rant for awhile.