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Time for DuckDuckEmail, I say! :-)

• jodrellblank 16y ago
  I'd be tempted to design a "Never delete email again! We autodelete all email 10 days after receipt! Mandatory!" service. It would be able to be cheap/free/low infrastructure by not needing masses of storage, and stay fast by not needing to handle tens of thousands of mails. And it wouldn't need a complex UI or tagging/labelling/tabbing/folders. Also it would encourage / enforce dealing with mails and getting the information of of your mailbox and putting it wherever it needs to be. It would also probably need to have a tie-in with some persona wiki and dropbox so you could easily shunt relevant content that you need to keep. I think many people would find that they just don't need most old email and wouldn't miss it. The panic of "I have it around somewhere, let me spend time searching ... I think Bob sent it to me one time" is replaced by the certainty of "I don't have it". If email was physical stuff, we'd call email archiving a hording disorder.