Re: email contacts

Jim Webster wrote:
Brenda has had to put together an email chain of a bunch of diverse people
as a way of getting messages out in a hurry.
What has been interesting is the attitude people have to their email.
Probably half don't bother checking it every day, and of those some only
check it very occassionally (the longest gap was over a fortnight).
The other group is people who have the computer at work and have no interest
at all in having email at home.
We came to the conclusion that for about a quarter of the people dropping a
letter in the post is a faster and more reliable way of dealing with them.

Just beginning to wonder whether we have seen a limit to the penetration of
email and the web? A large proportion of ordinary intelligent people out
there just don't need it.
It does call into question governments hope to do business with us
electronically

Please remember that e-mail is still in its infancy. Ten years ago very few people had access to e-mail. Five years ago, very few people had access to broadband.

It takes time for people to adjust their lifestyles and I suspect that, for most, e-mail was not the primary reason for acquiring an internet connection at home. A lot of people only switch their computer on when they have a specific need. E-mail is seen as an adjunct to this primary purpose. Connecting with a dial-up modem normally costs money each time and so is kept to a minimum.

Broadband is slowly starting to change this and the "always on" nature means that more people are now leaving their computers switched on and, therefore, more likely to check their e-mail at frequent intervals.

In other words, this new (to most people) method of communication needs to be given time. I know that, to some of us, it seems as if it has always been there but it really is still bedding in.


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Howard Neil
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