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Ahem, emails are not broken yet, from last I tried

by gbog 13y ago

TylerE 13y ago
E-mail is horribly broken. You practically need a white list these days.
- rythie 13y ago
  I'm using SaneBox. I've gone from 20-25 mails a day to 1 or 2, really it saves a lot of time - I just check my @SaneLater box once a day and weed it out - if it should have been in my inbox, I move it to inbox and sanebox learns. I almost never have to go to their website.
- quadrangle 13y ago
  My e-mail is pretty clean, and every now and then, like maybe once a month, I get down to a totally empty inbox. I don't subscribe to many lists (but more than none), and I reply to important things, and delete sometimes. I use a "pending" tag to move off items where I am waiting for something else to happen. It seems to me that most people don't know how to handle e-mail (which is a serious problem), but it isn't fundamentally broken.
bradwestness 13y ago
From a discoverability standpoint they are. There's not really any way to find like-minded people you don't already know and strike up a conversation with e-mail, because everything is private. Which is kind of the definition of "social".
- bengillies 13y ago
  Pretty sure that nowhere in the definition of social does it enforce the need to meet or otherwise speak to people that you didn't previously know. Please don't confuse "social" as a general term with "social discovery". For many people, having something that's pretty easy to use and lets them communicate with people that they already know is a really great thing. Email really isn't designed as a social discovery tool. There are many other technologies (some of them built on top of email like mailing lists) that _are_ designed for those purposes, and several of them work perfectly well. If what you're expecting is one tool that both fits and performs well at all possible use cases, then you're going to be severely disappointed.
- alan_cx 13y ago
  Given the scanning that the likes of google do to gmail, it seems advertisers can "discover" me based on email. Just need to extend that to every one else. Privacy issues very much accepted.

Ahem, emails are not broken yet, from last I tried

by gbog 13y ago

Ahem, emails are not broken yet, from last I tried

TylerE 13y ago

E-mail is horribly broken. You practically need a white list these days.

rythie 13y ago
I'm using SaneBox. I've gone from 20-25 mails a day to 1 or 2, really it saves a lot of time - I just check my @SaneLater box once a day and weed it out - if it should have been in my inbox, I move it to inbox and sanebox learns. I almost never have to go to their website.
quadrangle 13y ago
My e-mail is pretty clean, and every now and then, like maybe once a month, I get down to a totally empty inbox. I don't subscribe to many lists (but more than none), and I reply to important things, and delete sometimes. I use a "pending" tag to move off items where I am waiting for something else to happen. It seems to me that most people don't know how to handle e-mail (which is a serious problem), but it isn't fundamentally broken.

bradwestness 13y ago

From a discoverability standpoint they are. There's not really any way to find like-minded people you don't already know and strike up a conversation with e-mail, because everything is private. Which is kind of the definition of "social".

bengillies 13y ago
Pretty sure that nowhere in the definition of social does it enforce the need to meet or otherwise speak to people that you didn't previously know. Please don't confuse "social" as a general term with "social discovery". For many people, having something that's pretty easy to use and lets them communicate with people that they already know is a really great thing. Email really isn't designed as a social discovery tool. There are many other technologies (some of them built on top of email like mailing lists) that _are_ designed for those purposes, and several of them work perfectly well. If what you're expecting is one tool that both fits and performs well at all possible use cases, then you're going to be severely disappointed.
alan_cx 13y ago
Given the scanning that the likes of google do to gmail, it seems advertisers can "discover" me based on email. Just need to extend that to every one else. Privacy issues very much accepted.