I always thought I was a dinosaur (and probably I am one) as I consder e-mail a different form of mail, and since mail is delivered once (or maybe twice) a day, I normally do check e-mails twice a day, typically as soon as I arrive in the office and some half an hour before leaving it (in the evening only replying to really urgent messages, that are rare, all others are replied next morning).<p>It's somehow refreshing that the people that studied the issues deriving from "continuous update" came to similar conclusions:<p>>Mark’s ideal system does allow for urgent communications, just not through email. If workers need to contact one another with time-sensitive requests, she says, they’d pick up the phone, send an instant message, or talk in person.