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I've been somewhat surprised that there hasn't been an effort to re-work e-mail as a content management system --- incoming e-mails have all attachments strippe

I've been somewhat surprised that there hasn't been an effort to re-work e-mail as a content management system --- incoming e-mails have all attachments stripped off and stored in a hierarchy based on sender/subject/recipient/date (and dupes discarded and replaced w/ a pointer) and replaced w/ links w/ the matching e-mail text stored as an editable wiki or similar marked up text, outgoing e-mails are synched up w/ the appropriate attachment and the wiki/marked up text updated based on the content.

KRAKRISMOTT 2y ago
Maybe you should apply for YC, Front app is a multi billion dollar company, they could use some disruption.
- WillAdams 2y ago
  Sounds like I'm just behind the times and Microsoft has some sort of solution using Sharepoint.
  - 8organicbits 2y ago
    SharePoint is not a reason to stop pursuing a startup idea.
TeMPOraL 2y ago
This sounds a lot like how messages are handled in companies that run well-integrated Microsoft systems. I've only seen this from user perspective, but attachments I send or receive via e-mail (Outlook) or Teams (IM) can be browser per-conversation, and/or end up on SharePoint, can be updated or accessed from other tools, etc. Best I can tell, this is a kind of content management system, centered around SharePoint, but I don't really understand how it works.
inopinatus 2y ago
I've seen something like this in CRM and in closed-circuit corporate/institutional groupware. But when discarding RFC-standard text as the canonical form then we also discard (or must re-implement) every functional, security, and deliverability measure that assumes as much in the design when addressing global email. The simplest illustration I'd give of this is through a question: "how you gonna preserve my PGP signatures?" and if the answer is "ah, you are not our target segment" then you get how it's not a global solution.

KRAKRISMOTT 2y ago

Maybe you should apply for YC, Front app is a multi billion dollar company, they could use some disruption.

WillAdams 2y ago
Sounds like I'm just behind the times and Microsoft has some sort of solution using Sharepoint.
- 8organicbits 2y ago
  SharePoint is not a reason to stop pursuing a startup idea.

TeMPOraL 2y ago

This sounds a lot like how messages are handled in companies that run well-integrated Microsoft systems. I've only seen this from user perspective, but attachments I send or receive via e-mail (Outlook) or Teams (IM) can be browser per-conversation, and/or end up on SharePoint, can be updated or accessed from other tools, etc. Best I can tell, this is a kind of content management system, centered around SharePoint, but I don't really understand how it works.

inopinatus 2y ago

I've seen something like this in CRM and in closed-circuit corporate/institutional groupware. But when discarding RFC-standard text as the canonical form then we also discard (or must re-implement) every functional, security, and deliverability measure that assumes as much in the design when addressing global email. The simplest illustration I'd give of this is through a question: "how you gonna preserve my PGP signatures?" and if the answer is "ah, you are not our target segment" then you get how it's not a global solution.