Email is good for one thing only: flirtation. The problem with flirtation has always been that the nervousness you feel in front of the object of your infatuation deprives you of your wittiness. But with email you can spend an hour refining a casual sally. You trade clever notes as weightless, pretty, and tickling as feathers. The email, like the Petrarchan sonnet, is properly a seduction device, and everyone knows that the SUBJECT line should really read PRETEXT.
— from N+1, Issue Number 5, Decivilizing Process
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E-mail (and in particular, Groupwise), has proven to be a fantastic method of creating an electronic papertrail at work. This is useful when one works for a large beauracracy, and has found that individuals one depends on to complete tasks (especially those up the food chain) have not done so (either through incompetence, indifference, or malice). You may not be able to get others to follow through on required tasks, but having records documenting the content of e-mails sent, as well as dates, whether it has been opened, etc., sure helps to prevent people from claiming they weren’t informed.
And, being employed in corrections, flirtation via e-mail (or pretty much through any medium) is not high on the priority list, as you can probably imagine…
— Jeremiah · Oct 22, 03:02 AM · #