Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.misc > #4467

Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet

Show all headers | View raw

On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 02:51:25 +0000 (UTC)
Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

> http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/why-email-will-never-die/375973/?single_page=true
> 
>    All these people are trying to kill email. 
> 
>    "E-mail is dead, or at least that\u2019s what Silicon Valley is
>    banking on," wrote Businessweek tech reporter Ashlee Vance.


Yes, well, sort of.  Agree that mail is super-useful, but it sure as
hell can get abused too, and corporations that aren't clever about
building other systems for collaboration or communication find
themselves awash in email.  I love email when I can have my own tools -
IMAP or POP+Procmail with Mutt and emacs or vim, but I hate it at work
where it's Microsoft Outlook and Word.  But I was desperately grateful
for the day they put in place a system for jointly editing documents,
as it did away with the many emails I got with attachments with names
like:

Document_3 +BS +JSE +Amzi edits(2) 3rd draft-final edits with new
header.docx

Email has its place, but should be kept in that place.  Coworkers that
treat email as a common filing system, or a cover-your-ass strategy
drive me nuts.

Furthermore, most attempts to kill email have been hampered by the fact
they're driven by a profit model, where the new tool/protocol is owned
by a company (like Twitter).  Email did so well partly because it was
an open protocol.  Usenet, too.  Imagine if this had originally been
the sole product of UsenetInc.com?  The platform would likely have gone
nowhere.

Back to comp.misc | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-15 02:51 +0000
  Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-18 15:08 +0000
    Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2014-08-18 20:09 +0000
      Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-08-18 21:03 +0000
        Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-08-18 22:18 +0100
        Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-08-18 22:21 +0100
          Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-18 21:57 +0000
          Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2014-08-19 14:12 +0200
            Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-08-19 13:15 +0100
            Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-19 12:32 +0000
              Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-08-19 18:59 +0100
                Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-19 20:46 +0000
                Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-08-19 21:58 +0100
                Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-08-19 21:10 +0000
                Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-08-19 22:20 +0100
          Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2014-08-20 08:40 +0000
            Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> - 2014-08-20 20:56 +0100
        Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Will Honea <whonea@whonea.net> - 2014-08-18 15:34 -0600
        Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-08-20 19:50 +0000
  Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2014-08-22 07:34 -0700

csiph-web