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Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005, 2:53 pm

Life Without E-mail

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Some months ago I decided that only urgent messages are worth the use of E-mail. Somehow I just got fed up, even though I was spam-free.

A couple of days ago I took what I hope to be a step towards life without E-mail. I set up a Wiki where most of my correspondence will take place. Wikis are a collection of pages where content is editable by everyone, given access privileges of course. Why not use forums or bulletin boards for rapid communication? Here is a short comparison:

Wiki* Forum*
Editable Immutable once posted
Easily reversible (a la CVS) No support for versioning
Quick access Cumbersome access
Collaborative Less collaborative
Searchable Searchable
Quick back-up Quick back-up

*Dependent on the package

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