On the Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 09:37:30PM +0100, Chris Meidinger blubbered:
Hi.
Whole industries depend on it. Without e-mail my business would be dead. In todays world communication is a vital issue to the service industry.
The question I usually ask people is: "If I gave you a choice between taking down your email-system or your PBX, what would you choose?"
Everyone says to kill the phones.
I think that's a good measure of relevance.
Not necessarily.
For certain things, phonecalls are much better, because of the realtime aspect.
The reason for voting for email instead of phones is that mails can be read later. It does not so much interfere with work, unless you let yourself distract by blinking icons or whatever.
Any media has its pros and cons.
CU, Venty