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+title = "Email, again"
+author = ["Michał Sapka"]
+date = 2024-10-18T23:28:00+02:00
+categories = ["blog"]
+draft = false
+weight = 2002
+image_dir = "blog/images"
+image_max_width = 600
+Abstract = "Another part of me rambling on email"
+Listening = "Miles Davis - Kind of Blue"
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+One of the things I am seeing up again is my email system.
+I like calling it a system, but basically it's just [a very standard mbsync(1) + notmuch(1)](/emacs/notmuch/) combo.
+But this puts me in the vanguard of email fantastic.
+Nothing fancy, just basic stun **which works**.
+I am therefore the only person who loves using email I know in meat-space.
+
+And I think I know there reason why:
+
+>
+>
+> In the past, the population of people using the Internet had "grown
+>    up" with the Internet, were technically minded, and understood the
+>    nature of the transport and the protocols.  Today, the community of
+>    Internet users includes people who are new to the environment.  These
+>    "Newbies" are unfamiliar with the culture and don't need to know
+>    about transport and protocols. In order to bring these new users into
+>    the Internet culture quickly, this Guide offers a minimum set of
+>    behaviors which organizations and individuals may take and adapt for
+>    their own use.
+>
+> -- [rfc1855](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt)
+
+The above is from RFC definite netiquette guidelines.
+Yup, the thing we heard about since we were in our win-modem age was an official guideline.
+
+It's from 1995 and yet we learn that people are new to the web and may not know how to use it.
+Email is an old protocol, it was created for a much smaller internet, less hostile one.
+It expects users to own their communication - to learn the tools, and the tribe culture.
+Is very much like Usenet in that matter.
+To use it properly, one should study it.
+
+People don't study things anymore.
+They expect instant feed of memes, not a long text.
+There are people who love the long text (present company included, I assume), but we are not the norm.
+An everyday, normal guy doesn't know that nothing comes close to scripting capabilities of email.
+He doesn't care that it's one of the very few things one is capable of owning on the inter-webs.
+For them email is that old thing where notifications and spam live.
+
+Email is an elegant tool for more civilized times, and as that it requires our special attention.
+It needs love, it needs usage.
+No one else will give it, especially not people forced to use terrible clients, like Gmail or Outlook.