[keyle]

It completely amazes me how nothing has changed. The only difference from Today's email is that those vax mails were usually longer, more polite, and full of nostalgia.

Take baby announcements emails for example. They're identical word for word as today's. I always thought people recently got better at writing those. But no, the pattern was established back then and, shockingly, we haven't changed the way we're making babies, or changed standards in describing a healthy birth.

Back then, and still today, you could guess the person's personality by his/her emails.

Also, back then, they were trying to improve productivity as a constant struggle, just as we do today. Interestingly, nothing has improved much in that field. It's still a rat race. Everybody recognizes the loss of productivity in large businesses, and there seems to be no real fix.

[columbo]

> more polite

I know you are correct in 99.9% of all situations as email used to be taken more professionally. ...but I did find this little gem in there, it made me laugh and reminded me on how so little has changed in software/process/delivery over the last thirty years.

		From:	KIM::LOGG            1-FEB-1984 09:54  
		To:	@SYS$MAIL:JUNK
		Subj:	More on FXL letter (or the second biweekly Jeff Boscole letter)
		...
		The only reason I was given why the cart was to be released within
		a week of the meeting was to have ONE week worth of sales for the first
		quarter.  WHAT A SHITTY, GOD DAMNED, FUCKING CSDKFHAS FHLAVFHJ EXCUSE!!!!
		What ever happened to quality which the name ATARI is supposed to represent?
		Where was VCS management??  I would hope that someone would stand up and
		say "THE GAME IS NOT READY.  WE WILL RELEASE IT WHEN IT IS DONE!!"  Who 
		are they trying to make look good?