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Remail: IBM is Reinventing Email
mrbarkeeper writes "IBM Research has thought about email and came up with a prototype of a better mail client.
From their website: 'The Collaborative User Experience (CUE) team in IBM Research has spent nearly a decade studying email. Not only has email become one of the most pervasive and successful collaborative tools available, it has also become a key component of IBM's Lotus Software offerings. In many ways, email can be seen as a victim of its own success - users increasingly suffer from overload and interruptions as well as use email in a manner for which it was not intended.' Several ideas worth discussing, some good, some irrelevant. But still worth a gander for anyone who spends most of their day in their inbox.
Sure, the people who are so de-clued they put a fucking trash can next to a deleted email instead of the obvious option used by every other mail client out there - MOVE THE DAMN THING TO THE DELETED ITEMS FOLDER.
Talk about clutter. Yes, I'm forced to use your pile of shit Notes at work. Want to cut down on my inbox clutter? Simply move the damn deleted messages out of the inbox view you stupid fucking idiots!
Sure, it's secure as hell, and maybe the backend programming of it is all good and shit, but from someone who comes into work after using Evolution at home, and has to use your bucket of shit all day long, it is a massive pile of shit.
Anybody from the Notes division that reads this: a big fuck you, have a shitty day from me!
Thank you but I'll stay with Gnus (and GMANE).
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
I know people here will find it hard to believe, but Outlook 2003 has most of the IBM's concepts already incorporated.