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The future of e-mail (http://mybroadband.co.za/news/internet/20380-The-future--mail.html)
From POP and SMTP to Google's Gmail and Facebook's new Messages – what does the future hold for e-mail?
dabbler
21-05-2011, 05:56 PM
Can't foresee too much change from the status quo.
inferno
21-05-2011, 05:58 PM
I would never use facebook for work...
TirNaNog
21-05-2011, 06:06 PM
Email has it's origins in solid standards... back in the day when IT folk were propeller heads who understood assembly and thought about consequences. These days you know a 16th GL, can put together a GUI in 2 minutes but don't know or want to know much about the gears that drive it all...
moklet
21-05-2011, 06:20 PM
email will stay rock solid and is still an effective way of communicating
TheGuy
21-05-2011, 06:59 PM
A simple test is when a companies email goes down. The whole company stops working.
On the flip side I think it's time to move on from email. Within 2 months of getting a new email address I'm already getting 100s of emails a day. Which is such a waste of time.
Tomtomtom
21-05-2011, 07:11 PM
I think it's hilarious Facebook's idea we should look to kids to see what we'll all be doing in the future.
We should look to business and academia: where the PC got its start, where the Internet got its start, TCP/IP, the Web, SMTP, email, instant messaging, chat, everything: kids are the last in line to new technologies that are born in communities of grown-ups. Facebook is trying to lay a smokescreen in front of the fact that they are following, not leading, in new tech.
6ghost
21-05-2011, 07:11 PM
yeah, email will stay for long, though a new protocol for sending mail needs to be developed, smtp getting old, but still rock solid
TheGuy
21-05-2011, 09:43 PM
I think it's hilarious Facebook's idea we should look to kids to see what we'll all be doing in the future.
We should look to business and academia: where the PC got its start, where the Internet got its start, TCP/IP, the Web, SMTP, email, instant messaging, chat, everything: kids are the last in line to new technologies that are born in communities of grown-ups. Facebook is trying to lay a smokescreen in front of the fact that they are following, not leading, in new tech.
Um facebook was born in a university
inferno
21-05-2011, 11:54 PM
Um facebook was born in a university
pwnt.
Xenophyl
22-05-2011, 12:38 AM
^not really. You are clearly mistaken if you think Facebook is any type of revolutionary technology >.>
Tomtomtom
22-05-2011, 12:41 AM
Um facebook was born in a university
Exactly my point buddy.
We should look to business and academia
...not kids.
BravoFox
29-05-2011, 05:21 PM
I also think e-mail is here to stay, but I also feel the SMTP, but more so the POP protocol is getting a bit stale. Something that pushes the mail to the inbox, instead off clicking send/receive every 5 seconds when you are in in a hurry to get the OTP to do an Internet banking payment...
Kosmik
30-05-2011, 07:05 AM
There will always be a need for a formal communications medium. Email fulfills that role perfectly and will continue to do so. Certainly, IM and Social help keep people conversing and informed of what other parties are doing but email is still the best inter company medium or even between employees. If you want dead technologies, look to physical mail and fax.
FatBoySlim
30-05-2011, 07:13 AM
I remember a few years back when it was predicted IM would replace email, yes some companies do business using IM now more than in the past, but they defn got it wrong as a replacement.
There will always be a need for a formal communications medium. Email fulfills that role perfectly and will continue to do so. Certainly, IM and Social help keep people conversing and informed of what other parties are doing but email is still the best inter company medium or even between employees. If you want dead technologies, look to physical mail and fax.
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