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Twitter has the concept of the twitter canoe - an exchange you sometimes find yourself in the middle of, where conspiracy theorists and Trumpist wingnuts launch into impassioned debates around you, while you sit there, grateful there's at least something in your mentions for once.
{{g}}Twitter has the concept of the twitter [[Email canoe|canoe]] — an exchange you sometimes find yourself in the middle of, where conspiracy theorists and Trumpist wingnuts launch into impassioned debates around you, while you sit there, grateful there’s at least ''something'' in your mentions for once.


Ordinary email has its equivalent to the Twitter [[email canoe|canoe]]: the to-all chain, to which you can [[reply-all]], which is punctuated by [[thx]], Millennials outraging their  
Ordinary email has its equivalent to the Twitter [[email canoe|canoe]]: the to-all chain, to which you can [[reply-all]], which is punctuated by [[thx]], Millennials outraging their  
elder colleagues by addressing them as @andy and the whole dismal experience snowballing when participants begin to throw unsuspecting co-workers into the canoe — and under the bus — without warning.
elder colleagues by addressing them as [[@]]andy and the whole dismal experience snowballing when participants begin to throw unsuspecting co-workers into the canoe — and under the bus — without warning.


{{email canoe}}
{{email canoe}}


How — just ''how'' — will adding [[Chip]], [[Bob]] and [[Chuck]] to this tedious diatribe make things better, for them, for you, or for any of the legions of other poor saps stuck in this purgatorial conversation with you?  
How — just ''how'' — will adding [[Chip]], [[Bob]] and [[Chuck]] to this [[tedious]] diatribe make things better, for them, for you, or for any of the legions of other poor saps stuck in this purgatorial conversation with you?  


A rhetorical question to which there is no good answer.
A rhetorical question to which there is no good answer.

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