Email Rules.

So I open my email and there’s a message there from a webmaster I wrote to months ago. His one-line response to my paragraph (detailing why one particular post was a complete revelation) was both biting and funny.

The whole experience made my day, and it got me thinking about how great it is to get email. It’s a little validation; a little pat on the back. Someone out there is thinking about you. Very Linda Ronstadt/Jeffrey Ingram. It’s nice.

When you get it from someone unexpectedly it’s even more of a thrill. “What could this be?” you wonder. “Why I haven’t heard from fucking ______ in simply ages!” you exclaim in a Dorothy Parker-like drawl. You read on, a quiver of anticipation.

Anyway, people used to have to go through a lot more to let someone know they were thinking about them. A musical tribute at the annual tribal gathering. A letter sent months, possibly years prior. A telegraph waiting at the station. Now you can sit down for 5 minutes, and press send.

Really easy.

We should all do it more often.