..yeah. Really. It's been around in some form in the 70s, more standardised in the 80s, and was decently embedded in education and business in the 90s. Heck, there was a movie that was about an EMail based romance in the 90s... yet.... people keep making same embarrassing mistakes with stuff like replies. Not sure why. I still see cases in professional environments where people reply to a group EMail, expecting to get to the sender when in most cases it'll just go to the group (or at best an un-monitored bit bucket), and I still see people using "To" or "Cc" for long lists of personal EMails when "Bcc" is really what you want.
So why do people not understand EMail? I don't really know for sure, but my best guess is people don't like using it, and don't have the exposure that I expect they should have, but this excuse doesn't really cut it as I'm not talking about anything complicated here.
Sadly I'm too old to know what they teach in schools, as even my "kids" are long out of that stage, but surely they teach it? I think a lot of people in their 40s and 50s try to make out that tech was before their time, but it really wasn't. I was sending EMail (local only) at school, and have 25+ years of EMail experience, much of it I have archived. So really everyone should get these basic concepts. But they don't. So it's kinda funny when I see someone reply to a list with personal information or revealing private addresses. But really it's not when you realise these are the same people handling your private information.
Sigh.
