Email will last forever
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Email will last forever
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#2The fact "email will last forever" is precisely why I believe it is absolutely the best protocol to build automatic services to access and share personal information. I have spoken about it here: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=76
Edit: Someone1234: you don't need to wait for companies to support my proposal. It already works today with Gmail: try my live demo on pm33at@gmail.com - it works by leveraging standard auto-responder features. As to the comparison with XKCD 927, it is invalid: my proposal is radically different from anything that currently exists, because it is decentralized while all current personal information sharing platforms are centralized.
Edit: rakoo: yes, XMPP would work too, and would probably be a bit better than SMTP because it is real time. However in practice building something over SMTP has more chances of seeing success (because not everybody uses XMPP, but everybody has email).
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#3I think that a lot of "startups" are using the fantasy of an email-less world as a marketing tactic. I agree, I don't think email is going to disappear. Whether that is a good thing or bad, it's irrelevant
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#4No, it won't. I distinctly remember being told by many people that email would never replace letter mail because email was too impersonal.
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#5The single most important issue with email: Team Inboxes.
As soon as more than one person works with an inbox, it sucks big time.
But I agree - email will last forever, nearly none of the products you mentioned work without an email notification feature.
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#6The fact "email will last forever" is precisely why I believe it is absolutely the best protocol to build automatic services to access and share personal information. I have spoken about it here: http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=76 Edit: Someone1234: you don't need to wait for companies to support my proposal. It already works today with Gmail: try my live demo on pm33at@gmail.com - it works by leveraging standard auto-res…
Does this have the classic XKCD 927 problem (https://xkcd.com/927/)? Also wasn't this what XML was meant to solve (a single unified standard for interop)?
It could "work" but unless you got at least Microsoft (Exchange server, Hotmail) and Google (Gmail) to sign up then it won't go anywhere (which is largely the issue with all email momentum, Microsoft and Google have no interest so it cannot move forward).
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#7The single most important issue with email: Team Inboxes. As soon as more than one person works with an inbox, it sucks big time. But I agree - email will last forever, nearly none of the products you mentioned work without an email notification feature.
A team inbox is almost always better handled by a ticketing system or a mailing list or both.
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#8The single most important issue with email: Team Inboxes. As soon as more than one person works with an inbox, it sucks big time. But I agree - email will last forever, nearly none of the products you mentioned work without an email notification feature.
> nearly none of the products you mentioned work without an email notification feature.
Not to mention the ability to reply to those emails to add new content to those products. Building around email as a messaging backbone is incredibly powerful.
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#9No one mentions portability, but I believe it is a wonderful property of email - I have more than 15 years of email, moved across various servers and clients on various operating systems and it is still available and functional. What other personal communication channel is that resilient to technological change ?
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#10> "People spend on average 2.5 hours per day on their emails"
Source? That seems really, really high to me for an average.