I'm sure this works great, if you have:
a) A diligent secretary who stays on top of things for you, and
b) Tenure
Even (b) might not be enough if you're just a regular tenured professor rather than Donald Fricking Knuth.
a) A diligent secretary who stays on top of things for you, and
b) Tenure
Even (b) might not be enough if you're just a regular tenured professor rather than Donald Fricking Knuth.
But he's still reading e-mail - just not on a monitor. And I'd wager he's still replying to it - though perhaps he has her type it up.
And he's using email to about the same extent that a telegraph is a telephone. (With a telegraph, you speak your message out loud, and then the message is sent via a wire to a recipient, so it is just the same as a telephone, right?)
The tiny minority of new, unfiltered emails that ever actually hit my inbox are usually interesting. And they end up having filters written for them if they're going to reoccur.
c.1) You have made an insane amount of money, fame, and influence doing so already