Post #2194860
2025-12-02 23:07 UTC
@MartinEscardo@mathstodon.xyz but is email better or worse than things like zulip and teams? In my experience it's slightly easier to ignore emails for a while because the history is "linear" and it's easier to catch up than in the case where you are faced with several conversations on zulip that have moved on in your absence.
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@MartinEscardo@mathstodon.xyz 2025-12-02 23:15
@clemens@mathstodon.xyz writes "but is email better or worse than things like zulip and teams?" When people had to do this by post or by internal snail mail (I lived to see this), things were much slower, which I claim was better. Doing too many things at the same time doesn't work. You don't get any of them done right. Now admin email comes "very efficiently" on a daily basis from both my university and my own department. I question the efficiency of this. There is a limit to "new ideas" and "new requests", that email (or Teams or whatever) don't respect.