It is time to ban email
shkspr.mobi
It is time to ban email
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Re: It is time to ban email
#2you'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands dipshit. one of the last remaining protocols that you can a) self-host, and b) reach anybody with, and this person wants to ban it.
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#3You could argue the same for car driving or financials or any craft...
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#4> Will the youth of today see sending an email as ridiculously old-fashioned as a paper telegram or a landline?
They already do.
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#5well, that was a waste of 3 minutes
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#6Email is the worst form of communication. Except, all others are even worse.
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#7The problems described here seem like they could be solved by email clients, rather than abandoning the whole protocol.
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#8Can we not just throw out the last widespread open communication protocol with the bath water?
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#9Funny, I had a conversation just yesterday where someone was saying they joined a new company expecting to use collaborative documents for spec documents, technical proposals, etc. This is, btw, a very large company that makes many $B selling a SaaS for collaborative documents. They were surprised to find that everyone instead emailed copies of the spec around, expecting people to make individual comments in the doc and email it back, as if it was 2001.
It turns out that in [this part of] this company, collaborative documents go against the actual desires of the document author. They want to be able to accept comment/edits from an individual privately, say "thank you for your input", and completely ignore them. If the comments are public for all to see, they can't do that!
Strangely, private comments are not a feature of the SaaS product, despite this failure of internal product-market fit.
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#10Most of the issues discussed are problems with email software and not the protocol. Attachments should (probably) not be included by default in reply messages. Reply to a message with multiple recipients should ask clarification to reply to sender or the group (or have a selectable default). BCC should somehow be preferred to CC - Maybe CC should be "group email"