Re:Why kernel development still uses email
by austincheney on Sunday October 02, 2016 @06:14AM
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> Email is an amazing tool. I don't understand the rush to get rid of it.
I would say that Email has its strengths, but there are still learned opportunities for improvement.
Email is a text based format. I mean this literally as in there is literally no convention to email aside from a couple specified fields in the message header, which often get auto-reproduced into the message body. We can do better on this front to increase accessibility, internationalization, and understandability.
There is greater AI potential from email than from the web. Email chains tend to represent conversations with the necessary networking information that both computers and humans similarly understand. This is absolutely missing from HTTP and requires a lot of custom assistance in the formatting of the output to make sense to either computers or humans on the web.
Email is less centrally managed than the web. The end points on email are message authors while the server is a glorified application router. On the web though the server is the end point, which is far more primitive.
I would say that Email has its strengths, but there are still learned opportunities for improvement.
Email is a text based format. I mean this literally as in there is literally no convention to email aside from a couple specified fields in the message header, which often get auto-reproduced into the message body. We can do better on this front to increase accessibility, internationalization, and understandability.
There is greater AI potential from email than from the web. Email chains tend to represent conversations with the necessary networking information that both computers and humans similarly understand. This is absolutely missing from HTTP and requires a lot of custom assistance in the formatting of the output to make sense to either computers or humans on the web.
Email is less centrally managed than the web. The end points on email are message authors while the server is a glorified application router. On the web though the server is the end point, which is far more primitive.