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RE: Email Parcel Post is Good!
From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer () mhsc com>
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 12:00:22 -0700
From: Andrew Brown [mailto:twofsonet () graffiti com] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 10:59 AMthat and a small perl script are how i get all theinternet drafts andrfcs as they are published.Do you seriously expect a marketing VP to write perl?no. i expect someone to tell the marketing vp that emailing large documents is "wrong" and that someone will fedex them some floppies. or a zip disk. or a jaz disk. or a dlt tape containing a bzip2'ed copy of a hpodc cpio archive. in halfword swapped format. :) but not email.
... and you expect to get this disk from Livermore to Chicago, in 5 minutes, ... how? Business moves at Internet speeds these days, in case you hadn't noticed. To put it in a way even understandable to techies; Collaborrative document, updated and swapped between 4 authors, and reviewed by two others, widely separated geo-physically. Revised and rewritten 5 times per day, for a week (Not counting NetMeetings). Trust me, management does work this way. Process run-time, with email = 1 week; with FedEx = 1 month. Process cost (transit only), with email <= $20, with FedEx = $4500 (FedEx = very happy) Real cost; Deal is blown out because deliverable is three weeks late. Instant lost revenue.
my opinion.
opinion: invalid.
Current thread:
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good!, (continued)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Owen DeLong (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Saint skullY the Dazed (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Jamie Norwood (May 25)
- RE: Email Parcel Post is Good! Roeland Meyer (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Andrew Brown (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Mitch Halmu (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Steve Sobol (May 26)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Andrew Brown (May 25)
- RE: Email Parcel Post is Good! E.B. Dreger (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! hardie (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Steve Sobol (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Owen DeLong (May 25)
- RE: Email Parcel Post is Good! Roeland Meyer (May 25)
- Re: Email Parcel Post is Good! Andrew Brown (May 25)
- RE: Email Parcel Post is Good! Greg Maxwell (May 29)
- RE: Email Parcel Post is Good! Owen DeLong (May 26)