Comments on: Email is… like… so over http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/11/20/email-is-so-over/ Tips and add-ons to make Apple Mail / Mail.app even better Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:13:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Reports of email’s death not greatly exaggerated? http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/11/20/email-is-so-over/#comment-800 Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Reports of email’s death not greatly exaggerated? Tue, 03 Jan 2006 14:52:26 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=390#comment-800 [...] A few months ago Hawk Wings blogged a Business Week report that claimed email has has its day. Gen Xers and corporations alike are switching to instant messaging, wikis, collaborative blogging and other Web 2.0 innovations in order to get things done. [...] [...] A few months ago Hawk Wings blogged a Business Week report that claimed email has has its day. Gen Xers and corporations alike are switching to instant messaging, wikis, collaborative blogging and other Web 2.0 innovations in order to get things done. [...]

]]> By: Tim http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/11/20/email-is-so-over/#comment-493 Tim Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:25:41 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=390#comment-493 I agree 100% Two weeks ago, I think it was, I saw a single spam email in my inbox that Apple Mail's Junk filter didn't catch. On the other hand, I am not a corporation ;-) I think that news articles like this are part Web 2.0 hype, part normal journalist hyperbole. But entertaining either way. I agree 100% Two weeks ago, I think it was, I saw a single spam email in my inbox that Apple Mail’s Junk filter didn’t catch. On the other hand, I am not a corporation ;-)

I think that news articles like this are part Web 2.0 hype, part normal journalist hyperbole. But entertaining either way.

]]> By: Nat http://www.hawkwings.net/2005/11/20/email-is-so-over/#comment-492 Nat Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:20:39 +0000 http://www.hawkwings.net/?p=390#comment-492 Publishing breathless statistics about spam volume is good for Postini, if it makes people think they need a spam-filtering service like Postini. The spam numbers aren't very threatening even if they're true. I get quite a lot of it, but SpamSieve is so ruthlessly effective, with such a vanishingly low false-positive rate, that my spam numbers could increase by two orders of magnitude and I might not notice. Email isn't subject to Gresham's Law. Publishing breathless statistics about spam volume is good for Postini, if it makes people think they need a spam-filtering service like Postini.

The spam numbers aren’t very threatening even if they’re true. I get quite a lot of it, but SpamSieve is so ruthlessly effective, with such a vanishingly low false-positive rate, that my spam numbers could increase by two orders of magnitude and I might not notice. Email isn’t subject to Gresham’s Law.

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