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Honest question: what's wrong with email? Not in the sense of "you should just email rather than IM and stop complaining". In the sense of "Why doesn't someon
by jessriedel 10y ago
Honest question: what's wrong with email? Not in the sense of "you should just email rather than IM and stop complaining". In the sense of "Why doesn't someone build a dead-simple overlay that exploits the email protocol?" I'm thinking a simple tag at the beginning of the subject line that causes it to be auto-archieved in gmail. Is the latency too large?
- cm2187 10y agoThe fact that the identity of the sender is not verifiable is a pretty major flaw. SMTP is also too often unencrypted. And it is not designed for real time.
- gtirloni 10y agoYes, the latency is too large. When I want really instant messages I've to switch to WhatsApp because Hangouts on my phone takes a minute or two to receive messages (tried all configuration tricks in the book). Just an example where latency with messaging apps is already too high.
- jessriedel 10y agoYea, Hangouts is garbage...