Everyone I know uses email. I don’t know many people who know how to use email. If you want to be better at writing email, just do what is written on this page: https://subspace.kernel.org/etiquette.html
The people who wrote the short hints/guidelines in the link above built the Linux Kernel1 while communicating 99% only through email.
I’m confident they have figured out a good set of rules to reduce confusion and improve efficiency through written communication2.
The linux kernel is at the core of every service that we use on the internet, android phone, airplane, etc. It’s one of the most complicated and important tools humanity uses. ↩︎
Examples of some of the Linux Kernel Mailing List from 2005, https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/29 . Another example with no code from 2025, https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/6/1292 (that one is spicy, with spicy responses). ↩︎