Re: Mail is worse than everything except all the alternatives, was Service outages planned for April 25

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On 4/29/22 23:20, John R Levine wrote:

> You know as well as anyone that for decades people have been saying 
> e-mail is dead, everyone uses X instead, but the X keeps changing and 
> e-mail is still around.

Email is still around, and is still used for business.   But for most 
interpersonal communications, email has become the medium of last 
resort, after social media sites and SMS.  And in addition to the other 
reasons that cause people to prefer other media, spam filters have made 
cross-domain email notoriously unreliable.

We've basically lost what used to be a common Internet-wide medium for 
effective communication, and that's an immense tragedy.

Keith