If an email comes with an attachment, then I suspect that in a large number of cases the sender is probably using the wrong medium. So for example, this morning I found in my mailbox:
Three seminar announcements with *ALL* the details in an attached word file (nothing in the body of the message). ("Please find enclosed details of our next seminar" - you know the sort of thing...)Two newsletters as PDF attachments (they're available on the web as well...)
And a flurry of emails representing forwarded messages from other applications (my own fault...)
So for example, I quite often mail people links, which can probably be annoying at times...
...so I'm working hard on getting people to set up a delicious account, subscribe to the "links for you" feed, and then I can share links with them using the delicious for: tag.
That said, I'm starting to find I now need a level of indirection, in that I can't remember people's delicious names and I need to find a way of getting nicknames to work... so if you know of a flock extension that lets me create an address book for for: tagging people using the flock bookmark tool, please let me know :-)
(For more on delicious, this is interesting: Jon Udell "Discovering versus teaching principles of social information management"
If you don't know what delicious is, check out the Common Craft "Social Bookmarking in Plain English" video:
One important thing to note from the point of view of this post is if we both have delcious accounts, we can send bookmarks to each other...
PS lazyweb, oh, lazyweb, is read/writemail ready yet?
PPS Brian S. - is the email attachment document processor ready yet? ;-)
Tags: grumpy, emailSucks
Posted by ajh59 at December 14, 2007 11:29 AM