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Why Email is a Bad Collaboration Tool

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-best-tool-to-use dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Isaac Garcia follows up his popular "The Good in Email" article with "The Bad in Email or (Why Steve Ballmer is the CTO of Microsoft)": "In spite of email's universal success (as a collaboration tool), and in spite of its many good traits, email contains deep, inherent flaws that force users and markets to seek alternatives to collaborating via email."

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  1. Re:Better email by pubjames · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    maybe the problem is that you are not listening

    I am listening...

    legitimate email is not supposed to vanish without a trace.

    But it does.

    The fact of the matter is that emails that many people suffer a lot of problems with emails, from my old ma to the CEOs of large companies. The current email system is flawed. Telling me that it's perfect or that it already does everything that everyone want is just frankly rubbish. The reason I find this subject so annoying is that one day there will be a better messaging system than email, but it looks like it's not going to come from the OSS community.

  2. Re:Better email by pubjames · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It can.

    No it can't. I can send a message and it doesn't get through and I may not get a notification about that.

    Now, I understand what your saying. Your saying that thunderbird, as a email client, does its job properly. I'm saying, email is broken. If thunderbird could solve that - still using email addresses but not using the current email system to send them, then it would be great.