I have to get all the information I need to impart into only two sentences? Impossible!

If you work on it, I bet you can do it in one.

No one said how long the sentences have to be! Just whack everything into one huge paragraph that contains everything you need to say, just without full stops. Result!

Is there anything else there? Does that site do anything? And is there a reason that that isn't kind of a stupid policy compared to, you know, "be as brief as is reasonably possible, when replying at length isn't appropriate"?

/curmudgeon

You're supposed to link it in your .sig to explain why you are so curt. (sp?)

> "Mike Davidson is fed up with lengthy, open-ended email that takes
> waaaay too long to send an adequate reply. His beef boils down to the
> fact that email can be downright unfair.
> More than any other medium in the world, the time commitment difference
> between sender and receiver is huge. For instance, if you call me on
> the phone and we chat for 10 minutes, thatâ~@~Ys 10 minutes of your time
> and 10 minutes of my time. If you write me a handwritten letter and I
> write you one back, thatâ~@~Ys maybe 30 minutes of your time and 30 minutes
> of my time. If we exchange text messages, thatâ~@~Ys 10 seconds from you
> and 10 seconds from me. But with email, often times the sender will ask
> two or three open-ended one sentence questions which elicit
> multi-paragraph answers. In these cases, the sender spends one minute
> and the receiver is asked, implicitly, to spend maybe an hour.
> So, instead of doing nothing about it, Mike created a revolutionary
> simple web 2.0 Old School website with his personal policy of sending
> email responses in 5 sentences or less. Then he cleverly adds this
> statement to his email signature:
> Q: Why is this email 5 sentences or less?
> A: http://five.sentenc.es
> Brilliant! Oh, and what if you think 5 sentences is just too long? Try
> http://four.sentenc.es, http://three.sentenc.es, or
> http://two.sentenc.es.
> Take that, email."

All I know is nobody ever asks my sister "How are you?" twice. 'Cause "gettin' a drink from a fire hose" doesn't begin to describe what that girl can whip down in 10 minutes before she hits "Send." No kidding, just one of her 2000 word answers to a simple pleasantry is enough to convince anyone to be damn careful with what they ask her.

I don't have anything to say. Two sentences is easy.