The Hostile Email Landscape
Email is such a broken system. It's unacceptably hard to get a message from one machine to another and have it not marked as spam.Furthermore I can't stand when I have to setup all of my accounts across the multitude of devices that I own. Way too many settings to configure regarding ports, domain names, encryption techniques, folder mappings, etc.Don't get me wrong, I'm super impressed that email has managed to continue to be an essential tool in many people's day to day workflow despite being old enough to be found in a museum. But it's time for a change, and for us to put all we've learned about encryption, data serialization, and user workflow out on the table to design a better future for the universal method of digital asynchronous threaded communication.And if we've learned anything from Google Wave and friends, these changes have to make sense, and not stray too far from what we're already familiar with and know that works.Anyone want to weigh in?