Point 1 is pretty good, actually. Email for me is mostly for "official" communications and bug reports from people that haven't heard of IRC. When I want to talk to a friend, I wait for them to come online instead of sending e-mail. When I want to talk to the author of some program I am using, I use IRC. At work, we use IRC for everything. Even our clients prefer IM to e-mail these days.
If all the mailing lists I read were on Usenet, I don't think I would even need e-mail. An interesting thought.
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Point 1 is pretty good, actually. Email for me is mostly for "official" communications and bug reports from people that haven't heard of IRC. When I want to talk to a friend, I wait for them to come online instead of sending e-mail. When I want to talk to the author of some program I am using, I use IRC. At work, we use IRC for everything. Even our clients prefer IM to e-mail these days.
If all the mailing lists I read were on Usenet, I don't think I would even need e-mail. An interesting thought.