On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:56:26 -0400
Kee Hinckley <nazgul(_at_)somewhere(_dot_)com> wrote:
At 12:44 PM -0700 4/22/03, J C Lawrence wrote:
Email communication in trusted environments (eg a company) should
remain as trivial and ad-hoc as it is today.
Does "within an ISP" count too? I'm just wondering what percentage of
email users work in companies (with internal email systems) compared
to the personal users and people who don't have a corporate mail
system. My gut tells me the latter is larger, which could be a
problem.
I have dealt with a number of startups, small companies, traveling
executives, and even a local county government department who use
Yahoo/MSN/Hotmail for their organisational email. In those cases the
fact that the addresses were "public" was an explicit and obvious
assumption with everybody from the secretaries on to the receptionist.
THis was usually expressed or talked of in terms of email to those
addresses being not quite so reliable, or timely, and more likely to be
lost or overlooked in the noise of spam and other personal messages.
ObNote: I work in the Silly Valley (actually I don't, I'm looking for
a job, but bear with me) and its possible that people are just
different here, but I kinda doubt it.
--
J C Lawrence
---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas.
claw(_at_)kanga(_dot_)nu He lived as a devil, eh?
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
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