EMail to NoMail!!!

A World without Protocol is a World in Anarchy ... burying traditional email 'subject' line, the cc and bcc only serves non-protocol environments. The death of the Email is being celebrated in context of the overwhelming existence of MS Outlook, ThunderBird, etc. and the fact that we still enter into written agreements that are drafted, titled, printed, signed and witnessed. Had all these things been outdated by the coming of the Email, then right now the email would also die off with the advent of the Facebook Mail-messenger thingy. But its not so, as the email merely replaced the letter format by being in the letter format, yet being in soft copy and on a server or a GUI with server back-end.

Subject Lines might be considered irrelevant, but it seems absolutely discourteous if one has to open everything up to know what the damn content is saying. Nevertheless a Subject-line is always welcome from those who summarize the contents in a phrase, otherwise it is as good as having no subject-line at all!!! Ruling out CCs would be possible to a certain extent, but in a protocoled environment that means "please read it later and its just FYI" so don't bother right away. BCCs on the other hand are not replaceable by any means I can imagine ... possibly I am not thinking out of the box here, or is there any box at all to be considered in the first place!!??



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