The Tyranny of Email
Ole Eichhorn,
Critical Section,
Mar 12, 2003
This nice article, picked up in Slashdot, takes the goodness of email for granted and takes a long, lingering and declicious look at why email is bad. The first problem with email, writes the author, is that it interrupts you, especially email that rings or dings or says "You've got mail" when it arrives. Second, email can amplify disputes: criticisms are magnified by email and technical debates are polarized. All of this leads toward "the six rules for avoiding email tyranny," rules that are common sense but are so frequently forgotten.
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