[FoRK] The death of email?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:51:11PM -0500, Luis Villa wrote:

> I don't think they are seeking to be in sealed environments; they are
> seeking to be in easy, feature-rich environments. (Ever tried to do a

SL is an easy, feature-rich environment. Which has about 50 k simultaneous
users. WoW has some 10 MUsers, though I have no clue how many online
at the time. Somehow, I can't imagine spend a lot of time in Wow.

> party invite which tracks RSVPs over regular email? Yeah, thought so.)

The in-laws managed to throw 100+ parties with no computers whatsoever.
Judging from the evidence, these were the parties I'd rather attend
instead of pencil-necked geek parties which need a godforsaken online
platform to RSVgimmeafuckingbreakP.

> The sealedness is neither feature nor bug; it just happens to be how
> the feature-richness is achieved.

Maybe it's just me, but haven't the tools all gone to shit? About
the only tool that hasn't deserted me is a text terminal session.
I definitely understand why some swear by text terminals, masks
and mainframes. At least there the system doesn't freeze, the 
browser doesn't fall from one crash into another, and the X server
doesn't crash semidaily. 
 
> (I love standards, but there has been no standard-based innovation in
> email/social collaboration in 20 years. Had there been, facebook would

Facewhat? Never been on it (I think it requires building a profile
even before you log in), and for what? To enter a yet another ephemeral 
platform? Which is known to be TLA-tapped? For free? Are they nuts, or what?

> never have been built. And we all know there are good reasons why, in
> a multi-vendor, stagnant )

I wish I could query those former online people who're now offline.
I'd like to know what they're doing, and whether they're happy.
Kinda futile to ask that on a mailing list, I know.

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