On: The Elegant Email

The irony is rich here. A blog post of 21 paragraphs and 1,302 words devoted to brevity?

I did him a favor of shortening it.

http://tldr.io/tldrs/507b5e078edaf0c942000faa

BTW - "I do not believe email is not a long form communication medium, and my rule of thumb is that an email should be no longer than three (or four) paragraphs. You might hate this stipulation."

I assume this is a typo?

There is a good point made. Which is that email sucks as a long form communication medium. One quickly gets lost (and as a result loses a lot of time) managing "conversations". It is also very hard to get some sort of continuity with email, because everybody uses it differently. People will often reply with multiple emails when asnwering a group of questions that you sent them. Adding their own questions on top of it, and making it a mess of spaghetti.

Not that rich. I could write a two-sentence email on why I think blog posts should be long and well thought-out without irony; why not the reverse?

I don't see a typo. The way I read it, Lopp doesn't believe that email cannot ever be used as a long-form communication method, but he sticks to a general rule of 3-4 paragraphs.

Shouldn't it have been a 'but' and not an 'and', then?