Sorry for this OT question.
I am about to start writing my final paper soon and have been looking around for interesting topics.
With e-mail being so large a part of almost everybody's daily working routine, one (me) would think that the actual e-mail format/protocol/standard would have a rather big influence on the way people communicate/work together/socialise.
The impact/influence might be so big that you could actually see a change in the way people work with the release of a new Outlook version. Or maybe looking at a 5-10 year period you could see communication patterns change as a result of a new RFC document, e.g. will the newly inserted listinfo headers in Mailman change the way people communicate (this might be a silly example, but you get the idea).
I would love to hear if anyone has heard of similar (or even vaguely similar) research. Also pointers to anything even remotely similar are very much appreciated.
And finally I would be interested in hearing your own opinion.
Many thanks in advance, Jesper.