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Get Tgethr: A Simple Email Collaboration Tool

11 points by vaksel 17y ago

quizbiz 17y ago
I'm not sure I understand the concept of Email Collaboration...
- robryan 17y ago
  I'm not sure I understand the concept of all these startups with names warping the English language.
  - buro9 17y ago
    Lack of domain names.
deleted 17y ago
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ardit33 17y ago
Lame guys. I think the email encryption is probably the biggest feature, and you left it out from the try out. The only way to try it if it works for you is to pay for it.
- yankeeracer73 17y ago
  Actually that's not true - you can try any plan for 30 days for free, then you pay.
ideamonk 17y ago
I'm not sure if anyone's gonna buy this. I understand from my look at tgethr that its about collaboration, security and email wrapped into new clothes. But then, the popularity of a service hugely depends on the size of its userbase right? How would tgethr ever get a huge userbase by putting restrictions and making people buy to get a feel in the first place. I think the domain togethr.com would've been better, matches the pronounciation ... tgethr sounds like T gethr or something... I keep forgetting the domain for I thought it was togethr when I tried to open it after 20 minutes... I wish tgethr could have a nice favicon, can't see any in chrome. BstOfLck
gvb 17y ago
Looks like Mailman http://www.list.org/ http://www.list.org/ (except Mailman doesn't help with encryption, you have to figure it out yourself). FWIIW, my experience is that Microsoft Outlook and web-based email interfaces have trained users to use incredibly bad habits with email (crappy quoting, top posting (a subset of crappy quoting), 200K Word documents for a 5 line memo, megabyte .BMP screen shots, etc.). This really hurts email list usefulness until and unless the users improve their habits. Unfortunately... a) Outlook use is usually required by The Corporate Overlords. Even if it isn't required, users that don't know better insist on using it because it allows them to paste Mbyte .BMP screen shots into it. :-( b) While Outlook can be configured for usable quoting, nobody bothers to do so. c) Even if configured in the best way it supports, Outlook is still suboptimal. d) Web based email interfaces are generally even less configurable than Outlook and they all aspire to mimic Outlook, including promoting all of the crappy habits. --- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all." In other words, - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws. -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001). 1st American ed. New York : Harmony Books, 1980, c1979 http://www.douglasadams.com/ http://www.douglasadams.com/

11 points by vaksel 17y ago

quizbiz 17y ago

I'm not sure I understand the concept of Email Collaboration...

robryan 17y ago
I'm not sure I understand the concept of all these startups with names warping the English language.
- buro9 17y ago
  Lack of domain names.

deleted 17y ago

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ardit33 17y ago

Lame guys. I think the email encryption is probably the biggest feature, and you left it out from the try out. The only way to try it if it works for you is to pay for it.

yankeeracer73 17y ago
Actually that's not true - you can try any plan for 30 days for free, then you pay.

ideamonk 17y ago

I'm not sure if anyone's gonna buy this. I understand from my look at tgethr that its about collaboration, security and email wrapped into new clothes. But then, the popularity of a service hugely depends on the size of its userbase right? How would tgethr ever get a huge userbase by putting restrictions and making people buy to get a feel in the first place. I think the domain togethr.com would've been better, matches the pronounciation ... tgethr sounds like T gethr or something... I keep forgetting the domain for I thought it was togethr when I tried to open it after 20 minutes... I wish tgethr could have a nice favicon, can't see any in chrome. BstOfLck

gvb 17y ago

Looks like Mailman http://www.list.org/ http://www.list.org/ (except Mailman doesn't help with encryption, you have to figure it out yourself). FWIIW, my experience is that Microsoft Outlook and web-based email interfaces have trained users to use incredibly bad habits with email (crappy quoting, top posting (a subset of crappy quoting), 200K Word documents for a 5 line memo, megabyte .BMP screen shots, etc.). This really hurts email list usefulness until and unless the users improve their habits. Unfortunately... a) Outlook use is usually required by The Corporate Overlords. Even if it isn't required, users that don't know better insist on using it because it allows them to paste Mbyte .BMP screen shots into it. :-( b) While Outlook can be configured for usable quoting, nobody bothers to do so. c) Even if configured in the best way it supports, Outlook is still suboptimal. d) Web based email interfaces are generally even less configurable than Outlook and they all aspire to mimic Outlook, including promoting all of the crappy habits. --- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all." In other words, - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws. -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy / Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001). 1st American ed. New York : Harmony Books, 1980, c1979 http://www.douglasadams.com/ http://www.douglasadams.com/