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It's amusing how many people continue to suffer from a solved problem. Any email system that resembles Gmail in its most basic form, won't have any such problem
by whack 10y ago
It's amusing how many people continue to suffer from a solved problem. Any email system that resembles Gmail in its most basic form, won't have any such problems. 100 people replying-all to the same email? Oh hey, they are all lumped together into a single thread which you can easily ignore. Don't want to see any more emails from that thread? Oh hey, you can just hit the mute button on that thread, and you will never see any more emails there.
It boggles my mind how many people and organizations continue to use outdated crappy systems when vastly superior alternatives have been publicly available for over a decade.
- lmm 10y agoWe're talking about a European organization that handles people's most sensitive personal data - shipping that to the US to be scanned by Google and the NSA is not an option.
- eru 10y agoOP didn't talk about using gmail. Only about copying gmail's features.
- dpark 10y agoOutlook supports threading and "ignore". This still happens. If you put a few thousand users in Gmail for work (or whatever they call it), it'll happen there, too. Because it's easier to reply all than to think the issue through, remember that ignore is an option, and use it.
- theandrewbailey 10y agoBetter software would not have helped in this situation. Most employees in non-technical organizations are (guess what?) non-technical. Most want to do duties reflective of their job title, and by and large, view computers and software as tools, and not things to be known or studied.