Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
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Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
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Re: Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
#2The style of this post is a bit 'wild' but the message is sound.
I was reading those posts earlier, thinking the same: there is no point in burdening email with constructing 'todo' lists for named senders because my Opera mail client has been doing this successfully and more flexibly with filters for years.
Also, the thought of receiving potentially important emails which can only be read by, say, 'MS word-receiver 2012, v.3.2' fills me with forboding.
Re: Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
#3The poster is correct that email is not a TODO list.
However, email is broken. Email is inherently insecure, unauthenticated and wide open to abuse. There is no way of knowing that an email from me is really from me and wouldn't it be better if SPAM could never get onto the network in the first place?
Re: Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
#4yay another email post.
Re: Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
#5love this post !!! e-mail is not broken but we don't use e-mails like 2000... we need a smarter client
Re: Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
#6The style of this post is a bit 'wild' but the message is sound. I was reading those posts earlier, thinking the same: there is no point in burdening email with constructing 'todo' lists for named senders because my Opera mail client has been doing this successfully and more flexibly with filters for years. Also, the thought of receiving potentially important emails which can only be read by, say, 'MS word-receiver 2…
> The style of this post is a bit 'wild' but ...
So? Is that bad? Everyone has their own way of expressing. Some herein declare that electronic mail is not flawed. Some say that email is not broken. Some just say that email doesn't need dick-sucking.
Re: Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
#7This guy gets it.
Re: Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
#8This guy gets it.
Agreed!
Re: Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
#9Without all the sexual allusions this could be a decent statement -.-
(sorry, I have nothing against that when joking with friends or reading some not so serious post, but it does not fit to a commentary about email)
Re: Email is not broken: It’s a framework, not an application
#10A-min. The problem is that the way we're using e-mails has changed, but the e-mail is still a good concept. I would keep it ASCII (ok, maybe UTF) and screw everything else. It was supposed to work like that and it does it just fine.
The other note is that the communication is changing. E-mails are less and less like a full mail message, and more SMS-like, almost real-time, and packed with multimedia content. I think GMail is handling that as well as it can. It's surprising how slow it takes us to make new standards when they're obviously needed.