Can’t they read?!
The intent of email is to facilitate communication. Right? So – someone mails me to ask to meet Tuesday. I send a reply: I can’t meet Face to Face that day, so let’s do it by phone – can you do it at 3 PM? The reply I get says: If it’s FTF I can’t, can we do it on the phone? This happens all the time: you explicitly write something – and your correspondent acts as if it weren’t there. Can’t they read?! Truth is, they can read all right, but they have so many emails, so little time,.. Read more