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There are reasons why email is async and supposed to be decentralized, with priority based fallback options. (The priority in mx records). Most email servers tr
by pmlnr 7y ago
There are reasons why email is async and supposed to be decentralized, with priority based fallback options. (The priority in mx records). Most email servers try to deliver to fallbacks, and even if that fails, will try to deliver for _days_.
For all people who think slack can replace email, think about these safeguards.
- thejohnconway 7y agoIsn't it better in nearly every situation to know something has failed immediately, rather than get a delivery failure notice a couple of days later?
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- ajross 7y agoIn general mail servers will reply back with a failure notice within an hour or so. This isn't a standardized behavior and timeouts and retry semantics differ.
- fogetti 7y agoThe whole point of email is fire and forget
- pmlnr 7y agoIf it's a temporary outage, eg. network loss of a datacenter, email is not lost. It will be delivered with a delay, tried over and over again, until the timeout limit is reached. Due to the async nature the delay is not a problem.
- yifanl 7y agoI don't think any serious IM platform really intended to replace email, they serve different (but related) purposes.
- pmlnr 7y ago- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/style/slack-replace-email-ipo-listing.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/19/style/slack-replace-email... - https://www.brianmcadam.com/5-reasons-replace-email-text-im-slack/ https://www.brianmcadam.com/5-reasons-replace-email-text-im-... - https://tech.co/news/slack-replacing-email-workplace-2018-08 https://tech.co/news/slack-replacing-email-workplace-2018-08 [...]