Lloyd Dobler
Lloyd Dobler is a great philosopher.
My question for you: Say Anything came out 1989. Lloyd articulated a rule of "draw[ing] the line at 7 unreturned phone calls." How, if at all, is that rule modified with the advent of e-mail?
I look forward to your comments.
posted by Maxwell at 1:34 PM
4 Comments:
Hmmm. Well, 7 calls is quite a lot, but I definitely have this mental perception that it's ok to call more than it is to e-mail (not sure why).
And where e-mail is concerned, I also have this mental perception that 2 is quite sufficient. If you e-mail sometime twice (allowing perhaps a week or so for a response), you're sure you've got the right address, and the person doesn't respond to you, then I think that's a pretty clear signal. "Being busy" only goes so far as an excuse.
Just my two cents.
Take care. ;-)
Is there any hybrid of the two forms? What aggregate number of e-mails and phone calls (assuming both are tried) would be the magic number for getting the hint?
What I want to know is when unresponsiveness becomes a message, I guess. Maybe it's just a mystery of human interaction.
Is your e-mail rule modified at all when it is someone who has an established track record of e-mail communication? In other words, spam filter is not a consideration.
I'm tough - if I email once, and don't get a reply, then I may not email a second time. Occasionally, I'll email a second time, but that's only about a fourth of the time. So I more or less have a one email rule.
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