Surato, Michael S. wrote: > And with that it is time for this tread to die. Laurence is right, when > disscussion breaks down into personal insults, then it is no longer a > discussion. > I agree its time for this discussion to die however its worth noting that much of this thread is based on the notion that email is 'instantaneous'. That is a misleading foundation for this type of discussion. Just as text messaging several thousand cell phones cannot beat a old fashioned siren, an email cannot beat a phone call. :-) /sd