people who you write long emails to and then they reply with less than five words

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big fat dud.

― blahbariantheoriginal, Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

Dud. Though, writing email is hard, it's becoming a lost medium I think, I mean actually sitting down and typing an email.

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)

I love it. I want them to read my wandering blather not read theirs

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

GoI

― Huk-L, Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

I am crap at keeping in touch with people, phone, e-mail, whatever. Mainly because when somebody asks "what have you been doing?" I think, watching tv, going to the pub, surfing the net, nothing else really. Which is kind of depressing. And would make for a dull e-mail.

― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

mwhite, but you type a long email to them and then its almost rude cos they dont bother responding to yours with the same length, no?

― blahbariantheoriginal, Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:15 (twenty years ago)

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Stop pressuring them!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

you type a long email to them and then its almost rude cos they dont bother responding to yours with the same length, no?

Writing a long email can be rude in itself, if the receiver is then expected to do the same in return.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Are your e-mails sexy, blah?

― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

i just wrote my friend, whom i haven't talked to in months. subject: "hi" message: "hi". that's the way to do it.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Hey! Nice to hear from ya! Alright .....

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

"Writing a long email can be rude in itself, if the receiver is then expected to do the same in return. "

hahah. i hope thats a joke.

"Are your e-mails sexy, blah?"

they reduce the readers to bundles of sweat and moisture, yes. well, actually, not they dont. should they be sexy?

she might think that was a spam email, catilin.

― blahbariantheoriginal, Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

I was just positing the suggestion you were e-mailing pornographic stories to somebody and were disappointed with the quality of their response ;)

Ignore me, I'm getting pissed.

― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:25 (twenty years ago)

"Writing a long email can be rude in itself, if the receiver is then expected to do the same in return. "

hahah. i hope thats a joke.

No! It's a total pain in the ass when you write someone a normal length email (a paragraph, say) and they come back with some 1000-word monster. First, to read most the thing is crap. Second, to have some dimwit obligation to write 1000 words yourself is crap. Third, there is the horror that the whole thing will repeat itself very quickly (especially because anyone who can bother writing super-long emails in the first place is probably ferociously bored).

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Honestly, my epistolary habits in both the letter dept. and the e-mail dept. tend toward the laconic. I find the assumption that people have a lot of time to read my ramblings presumptuous. I tend to send actionable facts in e-mails and talk about the context in person or over the phone when I can.

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

youre getting pissed while posting on ILE? or do you have pubs where everyone is doing the same. that would be cool actually. everyone sits by the bar, gets tanked, and starts threads.

maybe i will get better responses by emailing erotic fiction to people. i have just used caitlins trick and emailed a friend a one word email. i will see if this is succesful.

― blahbariantheorig, Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I'm having a couple of at home drinks before I go to the pub soon. Actually e-mailing somebody erotic fiction and getting a one-word reply might be more depressing.

"Ooh."

― Jetlag Willy (noodle vague), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Email duds too:
- replying with banal questions so you feel obligated to write back with a stupid reply.
- replying with "Thanks" or "ha ha!"

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Actually, if someone just wrote "Hi" to me I would get pissed off too.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Though, writing email is hard, it's becoming a lost medium I think, I mean actually sitting down and typing an email.

Funny!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)

i have just used caitlins trick and emailed a friend a one word email.

Did you lean more toward the 'catheter' style one-word e-mail or the 'windfall'?

― M. White (Miguelito), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

People use far too many words as it is, I'm not going to complain.

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:37 (twenty years ago)

ppl who reply merely with LOL or hahaha are the lamest emailers of all time.

― blahbariantheorign, Thursday, 9 June 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

i feel bad. i've been owing someone a reply for a week now and i haven't written back because his e-mail to me was really long.

― metal assembly (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if I would be the kind of person who would get pissy about the way other people email me if I was the kinda person who gets emails from, you know, people, rather than just, like, moveon.org.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 9 June 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

I had an acquaintance write to me (along with many others) talking about a painful medical scare he recently had. The letter was very long and informative.

I haven't written him back because I know how lame it would be just to write GET WELL SOON and hit send. And I can't come up with anything longer because I don't think his missive was an invitation for all of his friends to start sending in their painful medical scares.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:05 (twenty years ago)

Write "Sorry to hear that. We'll be thinking about you - let us know how you're doing, you magnificent bastard." (that last part is optional.)

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

I used to write long emails to people, but then just gave up because of this phenomenon. I tend to be pretty succinct now, and usually try to keep my replies as long as the email that Im replying too.

― Actor Sizemore fails drug test with fake penis (jingleberries), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

i like it when i get really long emails from friends, but oddly, this usually inspires to write really pithy emails in return. so i understand when i write a long email and receive a short reply.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

What?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

i like the idea of an email--like a letter--that takes more than one sitting to digest, or that you can read over and smile. instead of "hey what's up man? how's things? ok gotta go."

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

What what?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

i want to start writing real letters again. but i'm afraid that i wouldn't receive letters in return as i used to, before email took over (ah for the days...)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 9 June 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

I hate it when I finally send emails to people I owe an email to and they send a huge long reply five minutes later, putting me straight back into debt. It's discouraging and leads to longer and longer silences from me.

― estela (estela), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

hm, that's probably me.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 9 June 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Though, writing email is hard, it's becoming a lost medium I think, I mean actually sitting down and typing an email.

OK this is kind of freaking me out. Lost art?! Good god, it isnt as if email has been around for hundreds of years. I wish I still got to write PROPER letters. I dont like email being a replacement for them (even though it is).

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 10 June 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

I wish I had an excuse to write Proper Letters too, Trayce. I have a box-file of them that I received from a close friend when I was a teenager; they mean so much to me that I daren't actually reread them at all.

― caitlin (caitlin), Friday, 10 June 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

P.S. I am wanking as I write this.

― Sir Anthony Hopkirk (Deceased), Friday, 10 June 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

LOL. The old ones are the best.

In reply to the original question. Maybe they are busy and want to just give you an asnwer before they forget. Or possibly they aren't very good with emails, or see emails as quick, snappy, communication, or maybe they just don't like you very much and don't wish to appear excessively rude.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 10 June 2005 08:40 (twenty years ago)

is there a link between laconic email repliers and one-liner ilx0rz. i would love to see pinefox reply to an email.

― N_RQ, Friday, 10 June 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

it's really not as exciting a sight as you think it'd be.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 10 June 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

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