Why is email stuck in the 80’s?

Iria · Jan 23, 2008, 10:52 PM

Source: WinExtra
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Email is screwed up.

Not that email as a method of communication is screwed but more the fact that the software we use to manage the ever increasing amount of email we get is brain dead and next to ineffectual in letting us control our information flow. Sure companies like Xobni and ClearContext are trying to give us ways to get a handle on it all but they are more interested in riding the wave of social networking of everything we do rather than trying to fix the root problem.

The real problem is that our email software is basically nothing more than a dumping ground that we pretend we have a handle on it all when in reality we are willing to declare email bankruptcy faster than a stripper sheds her g-string. In the 20 plus years that email has been the backbone of our information flow the software used to jokingly manage it hasn’t progressed beyond being anything more than the pony express of our cyber lives.

Jan 23, 2008, 10:52 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Why is email stuck in the 80’s? Source: WinExtra ________ Email is screwed up. Not that email as a method of communication is screwed but more the fact that the software we use to manage the ever increasing amount of email we get is brain dead and next to ineffectual in letting us control our information flow. Sure companies like Xobni and ClearContext are trying to give us ways to get a handle on it all but they are more interested in riding the wave of social networking of everything we do rather than trying to fix the root problem. The real problem is that our email software is basically nothing more than a dumping ground that we pretend we have a handle on it all when in reality we are willing to declare email bankruptcy faster than a stripper sheds her g-string. In the 20 plus years that email has been the backbone of our information flow the software used to jokingly manage it hasn’t progressed beyond being anything more than the pony express of our cyber lives.