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Re: Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet

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polygonum <rmoudndgers@vrod.co.uk> wrote:
> ... As is the other look which fleets when you suggest that using a
> file-sharing mechanism (whether Dropbox, OneDrive or any of the many
> other options) could be so much more sensible than sending everything
> as email attaments.

When all you have is a hammer, all your problems start to look like
nails.

Part of the problem with email in this context is its quite general
purpose flexibility.  It is a communications medium, but it can also be
a filesharing medium, and an IM, and a collaborative editing system
(loose definition of collaborate), and who knows what else.

So for those places that fail to impliment better ways to do things
like share files or perform collaborative editing of documents, it
(email) becomes that "hammer" and all the different needs it supports
become those "nails".

Which also likely is a large part of the reason for its continued
success.  It can serve multiple roles, so it can be that "hammer" that
is the only tool one has.  It may be way less than perfect at many of
the "nails" it is being asked to drive, but it can get the job done in
the end.

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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

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