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A replacement for email
- patrickc 15y agoThis is brilliant in its simplicity. It would be very feasible to implement on a single web server, but what are some ways to extend it into a protocol? If multiple servers mirror an email thread, how does one edit what he has already sent/posted? I think this can be done by using a public key encryption scheme, so that only the person who published it with their key can edit it on the multitude of servers that share this new email protocol.
- corecirculator 15y agogoogle docs?
- sliverstorm 15y agoIf you're using this just for inside your company, it's already been invented. It's called a forum. As far as outside the corporate environment, the reason email persists is: 1) Email is robust 2) Email is distributed, and not controlled by any one entity Email is almost like the bittorrent of communication, at least in my mind.
- ditojim 15y agoNovell Groupwise does the message recall thing. Not that I am suggesting you use that, but it has that feature.
- JarekS 15y agoWe are developing external and internal communication tool that has all the features that you have described. It called Discourse - http://www.discoursehq.com http://www.discoursehq.com We are releasing new version on 3rd of October that is more flexible and generic then current one - if anyone would like a beta invite please let me know!
- vegai 15y agoWhat a dreadful idea. How could I prove that you wrote me what you wrote me in the first place if you could edit your email after I received it? Email is not facebook, people.
- mooism2 15y agoI think that's the point. The article says that e-mail is not Facebook/Google+ and that this is a bug. We say that e-mail is not Facebook/Google+ and that this is a feature.
- jergosh 15y agoIsn't the 'unsend' feature one of the things Microsoft was trying to achieve with the Trusted Computing malarkey?
- zokier 15y agoI have no idea what you are talking about. I thought that TC was about hardware enforced binary signing. TPM could store encryption keys so it might somehow be applicable to managing e-mail identities, but unsend? I can't figure how it fits to the picture.
- shimsham 15y agoIM2000 has some interesting ideas applicable to some of the issues raised here.