> there's no instant feedback on whether sending a message worked > So I get less control of my attention with email Exactly what I wanted to reply. There are

> there's no instant feedback on whether sending a message worked > So I get less control of my attention with email Exactly what I wanted to reply. There are corner cases where an asynchronous medium forces you to multitask. On top of that, email was is not meant for threaded, group discussion. NNTP was: you can organize groups, access and search past discussions before you joined them, and run a decentralized/distributed service without fiddling with domains, DNS, DKIM... in comparison, email is kludgy.