Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years
by lucaspiller on Friday October 06, 2017 @04:51PM
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This is one of the reasons why Gmail was a game changer when it launched. Most of the other services at the time offered standard inbox one-message-at-time view, where as Gmail showed them in a threaded view.
> If someone is sending you too many
That's one of the points. I can publish my IM name but I will receive messages only from those recipients whom I will approve.
Publishing email address ... well that's the main reason why we cannot live without services like GMail - to filter out spam.
Re:AIM will shut down after 20 years
by jessriedel on Sunday October 08, 2017 @01:12PM
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Huh? My original question is why we can't have the best of both worlds since their is no barrier to combining them. Merely noting that different features are available with different services does not answer this question.
If desired, you could require approval from the recipient to reach this IM-level visibility if sent by a stranger, with unapproved messages appearing in the normal email box (sorta like FB does with non-friends). If someone is sending you too many, you can de-approve them, and you'll just respond slowly like email. The de-approved sender doesn't need to be told they have been de-approved, and the fact that we don't always reply instantly to IMs provides plausible deniability.