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On Friday 02 October 2009 14:17:14 Robert Kriegel wrote: > G'Day all, > > The overwhelming volume of traffic regarding Richard's e-mail posts > has illuminated two truths of this particular place and time. > > 1. I used to think that of all the software people use on a routine > basis, the one tool individuals were most emotionally attached to was > their word processing software. I no longer believe that is > true. Over the last 24 hours you have convinced me that people are > far more adament about defending their e-mail clients than they ever > were about their word processor. > > I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by this as e-mail, twitter, > Facework and the myriad other forms of electronic social networking > we dabble-in to devote-ourselves-to have become, to many, an > essential element of the glue that knits our social fabric together. [snip] For different age ranges, different things are "religious war" material. Probably for folks like us who've used email for some 25+ years, it the most important thing, but younger folks don't see email as that useful. They don't even see computers as usefule as the ....cellphone with texting ability. Most of the older (ie, 70+) folks I know regard their word processor software as most important. I can't wait to talk with friends 7 - 10 year olds later this year, and see what they think. ;-) --STeve