Email Discussion Groups

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Email Discussion Groups

Somehow I found myself copied on four or five big email group discussions regarding the outcome of the election.

As it always happens, people feel compelled to "reply to all" and then they generate huge amounts of spam in my mailbox.

I easily have 100 "spam" emails this week from this stuff, probably twice that.

I don't want to be a jerk and reply to all asking to be removed from the discussion.

So I just hit the delete key, again, and again.

I've moved on. I don't want to participate in group therapy.

But I know that its important to a lot of people to do that.

I just wish they'd find a more appropirate way to do this. How about a blog, or a wiki, or something more appropriate? It just proves that blogs and wikis are not mainstream and email is.

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Posted November 5, 2004 in Venture Capital and Technology

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I was on the same lists as Fred.

I think the difference is that email is an active sort of 'poke' where a wiki is something the recipient needs to go to in order to read.

Home delivery, as I used to say. It's the milkman's revenge.

Posted by: seth godin | Nov 5, 2004 8:35:23 AM

Lists are also usually comprised of people you know - or people who know people you know, etc. It's a safer forum for group therapy as it's much less like likely to generate responses you don't want to hear. If you put it out on a blog for the whole world to read - who knows what you might get back in response.

Of course, people with blogs usually like that element of the unknown.

Posted by: Chris | Nov 5, 2004 9:17:44 AM

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