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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.
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