A Quote by Stephen Fry

The email of the species is deadlier than the mail. — © Stephen Fry
The email of the species is deadlier than the mail.

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Email is not the simple exchange of text messages. Email is the electronic version of the interoffice mail system used for formal letter or memo communication.
Email is a senior citizen. It's been around since at least the 1960s in one form or another. In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a hot competition among consumer email services like Yahoo Mail, Hotmail and Gmail.
I've been using email since 1983. I started with MH and Rmail, then cc:Mail, then Microsoft Mail, with Compuserve mixed in. Eventually, I ended up using Pine for non-Windows stuff and Outlook for Windows stuff. For a while.
I've learned the idea of pausing when agitated or doubtful. I can still write the e-mail but instead of sending that e-mail to the person I'm in a fight with, more often than not these days, I just delete it. Or I run it by someone else that I trust before I send it. And then I usually laugh at the e-mail and how funny it is.
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.
For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and then again nothing deadlier than a bad one.
Email did precisely what I predicted, back in 1978, it took over the postal mail process and system of writing letters.
Make eye contact with cute strangers. Give guys your email. Email is safer than a number, or at least it feels that way.
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.
It's amazing how email has changed our lives. You ever get a handwritten letter in the mail today? 'What the? Has someone been kidnapped?'
Sincerity that thinks it is the sole possessor of the truth is a deadlier sin than hypocrisy, which knows better.
At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.
It is hard to check five email inboxes, three voice mail systems, or five blogs that you are tracking.
You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.
If you want to deal with me, email is the way you do it. Working via email means that everything I do is searchable. I can go back and check out discussion threads from more than 15 years ago.
A friend of mine created an email ID for me, and I was completely hooked soon after. I would mail friends constantly and lug my laptop everywhere just to listen to some music.
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