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Originally Posted by Stearns
Dylan,
Just curious. Why do you say that emails are essentially worthless? I may have to rethink the way I do things, if you know this to be true. GREAT letter, by the way.
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Emails can be (and are usually) ignored.
I mean, emails work for getting your message to people, but they have proven not so effective in changing people's minds/activism. Basically, they're a 'lazy' tool for people.
I think there was something written about the psychology and effectiveness and how people respond to getting a critical email vs getting a critical letter...like they took the letter more seriously than the email, because of the fact that someone actually took the time to write a letter. I'm not making much sense.
Firie has way more info on this than I do...maybe she can explain it better (hopefully). I think she actually has stats or something.
Dylan
P.S. Thank you for the feedback on my letter. Please send a letter if you can.
P.P.S. I'm only posting my letter in case folks don't have time to write one of their own. There's been many times I said I was going to write a letter, but ran out of hours in the day. I would have been more likely to actually send one if there was one already written up.