Using most current email client software, I can easily send you an email. But I can’t change it once it has been sent.<\/p>\n
Alternatively, I can choose to do things in a much more formal way, sending you a link to a Web page or a Google doc. In that case I can continue to modify my message after the fact.<\/p>\n
To me it feels as though we are being forced to one of two extremes, when there really should be something in between. Email clients should provide an easy way of creating a casual modifiable document just for the purposes of our email communication.<\/p>\n
You and I would both understand that I am sending you a message that contains evolving content. You can then choose to reply with your own message which contains evolving content.<\/p>\n
But we would not need to go to the formal step of declaring “here is a document on the Web.” Instead, we would just understand that our respective messages continue to be editable — or perhaps contain designated sections that remain editable.<\/p>\n
Is that asking too much?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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