I'm thinking of teaching an e-mail writing class focused on making the e-mail correspondences of the average busy executive more streamlined, specifically geared toward decreasing the amount of time workers waste writing e-mail messages that their counterparts will never read. It's pretty obvious that few people in the American work force actually read the body of an e-mail but instead glom whatever info they deem important from the e-mail's subject line alone. If an e-mail's subject line consists of "Acme project a go" then why bother with the rest of the message, it's only going to be chocked full of details you won't need until later and it's all going to be a let down anyway, right, since you already know the big news from the subject line spoiler? I for one know I've labored over the precise wording of an e-mail only to find out it was never read after speaking with it's clueless recipient. So let's all get together and agree that e-mail is passé and it's the age of texting, so all that is really needed in corporate correspondence is a very short line, something along the lines of "Acme = go" until that is itself shortened to "Acme ;-)". I would imagine we could cut down our work week to 35 hours---like the schedule the French already enjoy---just by avoiding the senseless waste of time writing and reading e-mail.
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Rusty doesn't like the color change and as I am not married to it, I'm afraid it will have to go, so don't get attached (words I live by).