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Re:Re-Designing the classic email client by justauser on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @03:35PM (#4225684)
As a business owner, I can't think of anything worse than trying to maintain an archival system for a bloated platform that would combine all of that together.

I do however think that interoperability needs to be improved.

Sounds like this would be a great time for a rewrite of the UNIX Finger tool to solve a problem like this. Real-time client/address lookup and can be protected with some kind of pub/private key.

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Re:Re-Designing the classic email client by podperson on Wednesday July 11, 2012 @10:33AM (#4229343)
Right now, all of it is ending up in email anyway, except for SMS (maybe -- googlevoice can route your SMS to email). So you get the disadvantages of archiving all that crap (which actually turns out not to be that bad -- my gmail acct is only half full, and it even has wordpress database backups routed into it) without the advantages.

(Surely writing a rule to automatically throw away old voicemails, say, is pretty easy.)

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