Comments on: Email is broken

By: Tom Scott

Tom Scott — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:04:24 +0000

You might find this interesting – few more problems with email and a possible solution:

http://anarchogeek.com/2008/6/20/the-future-of-email-from-smtp-to-xmpp

By: The best email bounce ever - blog - James Cridland

The best email bounce ever - blog - James Cridland — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:14:14 +0000

[...] got this today (actually, I got five of them). Given I’ve posted about email being broken, an idea for better email unsubscribing, and the concerning fact that Microsoft confirms working [...]

By: Martin Belam

Martin Belam — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 22:35:54 +0000

You’ve almost made me nostalgic for the days when I was trying to get the BBC News Daily Email system to play nice and had to go through a couple of days worth of the nonsense that got sent back…

By: Briantist

Briantist — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:17:33 +0000

Olly Benson: Just interested, which of the “superceeded by social-network and IM services” can you sign up to without an email address.

Just interested, I joined 23 last weekend when I was testing out ping.fm – and they all wanted my email address.

I suspect these people are not ahead of the curve, but behind it.

By: Jem Stone

Jem Stone — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:10:35 +0000

Thank you. v. much for not calling this excellent blog post. “Email Fail”

By: Olly Benson

Olly Benson — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 08:11:11 +0000

We were up in Newcastle/Sheffield last month for a regional skills event for 14-19 year olds (although most were 13-16).

We got them to fill in a questionnaire, that they could do on paper or using one of the computers on our stand.

The question we kept getting asked was “I don’t have an email address, what should I put?”. We estimated that 20-30% of the teenagers who filled in the questionnaire did not have an email address.

There is a generation of not so young people who think email is old-skool technology/what you use at work. They don’t *need* an email address.

The problem is that because no-one “owns” email, there isn’t anyone actually looking into why this a problem. ANd it’s being superceeded by social-network and IM services.

Outside of B2B, and possible B2C communication, email is going to be dead in the next few years.