Email tics

Mer­lin Mann; Five email tics I’d love for you to lose. A good 5ive on how some­one should get evolv­ing. Soon. My favourite:

The 18-line sig about all the Bad Things that will hap­pen to me if I ever reveal the con­tents of your priv­i­leged, con­fi­den­tial (and unen­crypted) message.

Some­times I won­der if most peo­ple wouldn’t be quite impressed with the state of the dig­i­tal age and all the things that would work more than well if they just got into the habit of behav­ing well online. Most prob­lems are cul­tural — how do we train peo­ple with­out flam­ing them, help­ing them off the hin­ter­web [pdf]?