[furyofantares]

Email is extremely bad for a whole lot of things though. Anything where the questioner doesn't know what they don't know. There can be a tendency to spend like a half hour composing an initial email in cases where the whole exchange would be resolved in under 5 minutes in real time, with better knowledge transfer. And the questioner can't really do it better, they don't know they're in the situation where the answer is going to info dump a whole lot of useful stuff that will completely change their perspective of what they were trying to do.