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Re:The Startup Zeitgeist by nl on Thursday May 05, 2016 @01:21AM (#11634157)
is growing faster than email

I'd assume that this is true - it would be astonishing to me if it weren't simply because of the law of high numbers.

Am I wrong about this and email is growing at ridiculous percent?

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Re:The Startup Zeitgeist by ry_ry on Thursday May 05, 2016 @02:46AM (#11634411)
What even constitutes email growth at this point - more people gaining access to the Internet? Creation of new MX servers? Signups to Gmail?
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Re:The Startup Zeitgeist by hkmurakami on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:04AM (#11634597)
Probably directly correlated to developing world internet penetration.
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Re:The Startup Zeitgeist by scotu on Thursday May 05, 2016 @03:58AM (#11634580)
email is at least growing as fast as slack since slack requires you to have an email to sign up ;)
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Re:The Startup Zeitgeist by hkmurakami on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:04AM (#11634594)
Not true since those email addresses often already existed.
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Re:The Startup Zeitgeist by tedmiston on Friday May 06, 2016 @01:05AM (#11641810)
I have 10+ Slack teams associated with my one email address
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