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> But, email is dead, so... What an extraordinary claim! My job, today, is dealing with a vast influx of various types of email that all need categorising and

• Cthulhu_ 2y ago
  It's like claiming Skype is dead but my last job was at a small company with many international customers and Skype was still their daily driver for international calls.
  • metalman 2y ago
    I see the above discussion as a describing a process, very much like evolution, with web sites bieng the species of interest, and how they are bieng shaped by, internal competition, for resouces (and prey), errr food, preditors, parisites, and environomental changes. neat!
• noirscape 2y ago
  Email will never die, no matter how much most people want it to do so. The protocol is arguably the best proof of "worse is better", which is why it's held out for so long.
• afpx 2y ago
  Unless there’s something important, I check my email about once a week these days. Otherwise it’s just for authentication.
  • ta1243 2y ago
    Work vs leisure. I rarely send emails for leisure, but I send and receive dozens a day for work, both internal and external.
• Dalewyn 2y ago
  Depending on if you work or not, I feel there's a bigly dissonance in the perceived prevalence of email, phone calls, and other such traditional(?) channels of communique. Most of them have clearly died in private life, but in the professional life you will be literally worthless if you aren't reachable by email, telephone, snail mail, perhaps even the fax machine.