https://xkcd.com/1810/ even better.

But hey, we are using IMAP and Mail which is already in the picture.

https://matrix.org/blog/2017/03/11/how-do-i-bridge-thee-let-... is the matrix take on that one ;P

One more: communicate over draft messages in shared email account[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal

haha, awesome. Love the lonely "Apache request logs" circle. :)

I remember paging a sysadmin once through the failed auth log with sudo.

That's not how interconnects work. You don't even have to connect to Matrix, you can just use it to link existing systems more easily. Pretend there is no protocol/standard and it still does a good job.