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I've fought this battle, and it turns out that non-technical staff often have no other recourse.

There is, in many orgs, no analog for the things that technical staff regularly use that make a meeting unnecessary.

PR? GitHub discussion? ADRs? RFCs? Never heard of them.

[unmole]

Email threads?

[lostlogin]

If cc’ing me, please no. Threads with loads of people includes are one of the more gross big-org features. At least I can not turn up to someone’s stupid meeting.

[unmole]

Most clients allow you to mute threads. You could also send emails from the most egregious offenders straight to trash.

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These are perceived to be worse than meetings, again mainly by non-technical teams who have never seen email (tied to a web-based mailing list, specifically) used to drive decisions.

[addisonl]

I think this is entirely based on your company and it’s silly to make that broad generalization since we’ve all heard the common mantra: “this could have been an email”.