From Reuters, via Yahoo, a telecom firm whose chief has forbidden the staff to send email, on the grounds that it takes too much time:

"We have e-mail paralysis," John Caudwell, the owner of the high street retailer Phones4U, told Reuters on Friday. "If you have a cancer you have to cut it out. That's what I've done." Caudwell, who described himself as a slow typer who has yet to send an e-mail on his own, introduced the measure this week because staff were spending too much time with internal e-mails rather than dealing with customers.