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I think there is a different problem: people do not know how to use email. 1) people do not know how to properly quote messages 2) people do not understand tha
by xte 8y ago
I think there is a different problem: people do not know
how to use email.
1) people do not know how to properly quote messages
2) people do not understand that mail are quick "mail",
not chats
3) people do not know that mail are not file sharing solution
Personally I have inbox zero via notmuch-emacs, and I use mails for nearly
anything feeds included (RSS2Email) mails are automatically filtered on
remote via IMAPFilter and I can refile locally if needed but I try to
avoid doing so to have more "automatic" solution.
A proper taxonomy + a proper full-text and tag search are the solution,
all messages locally under our control. Unfortunately for most there are
ZERO modern MUA, only webmails are developed so most people are stuck
with '90-era client and so leave their mailboxes in a messy state or
leave their message on someone else server without any real personal
backup.
I think this is wanted by many "big" that prefer proprietary platforms
with various lock-in like webmails or even more "new things" with much
more lock-in from Discourse to Slack, Disqus, Whatsapp etc. ALL of them
are a limited proprietary solutions trying pushing people out of emails.
- cmiles74 8y agoThe automatic quoting that email applications perform gives me a headache. 90% of the emails I receive require no quote, yet contain like 20 levels of indented quotes from the chain of messages that add nothing but noise. Modern mail readers already chain the messages together, but are not perfect when it comes to filtering out the quotes. In my opinion, people should be more involved with the quoting of the previous message. Perhaps the customer could highlight the part of the previous message they want and have that become the quote. Or maybe a button when we write an email that will pull in the messages we're responding to as a quote.
- bklaasen 8y ago> In my opinion, people should be more involved with the quoting of the previous message. Perhaps the customer could highlight the part of the previous message they want and have that become the quote. Or maybe a button when we write an email that will pull in the messages we're responding to as a quote. Thunderbird supports that. Highlight the part of the original message that you want to become the quote, and hit 'Reply'.