Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by brudgers 3774 days ago
Igonring the social dimensions.

From an information theory perspective, the lack of redundancy may be problematic, particularly if email is a noisy channel. Because hitting send writes to "permanent storage", typos "are forever"...and correcting them adds noise.

For example, I accidentally send "1w" when I meant "w1" versus "Will get bcak to you in one day."