I agree with Len. Granted, I am reading with my ears, at around 375 400 words a minute. Also I use pine or alpine for emails. Still, I have no issues sorting topics, reading at least the subject lines of several emails at once, and so forth. To be sure, sometimes things get buried if I am busy, I just found a surprise cash birthday gift from a friend more than a week after my birthday. Have no issues ignoring some things, this inbox alone has over 31k of them. Still, if I had a dollar for every time I went back to an old email from a mailing list, or a prior exchange work wise, I would never need to play the lottery again. My tools help me stay organized, and speaking personally most other places like reddit have blocked the third party access that used to make them open to innovation..like Linux command line tools for them. Karen On Tue, 26 Aug 2025, Lennart Sorensen via Talk wrote:
On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 04:26:56PM -0400, William Park via Talk wrote:
Problems with email are - it gets buried very quickly - you can only read/see one email at a time - difficult to scan through and ignore irrelevant emails - once it's in your Inbox, it's difficult to ignore.
Since we already have website, maybe web-based forum, using Drupal or something, could be the answer for "modern" user base.
Strangely what you list as problems in most cases I consider desirable features.
I like that I know I won't miss a message, I can read them all, threaded to keep a topic together. Web forums and things like reddit are horrible and I find it impossible to catch up on what I haven't seen yet.
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