[Design] High End Email

[oren]

Just a non-technical thought -

for those of us who live in a world where email sometimes ends up being
used as a legal instrument (and who doesn't these days?), permanent
deletion is a decision we *need* to worry about explicitly.

- Oren


On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, petite_abeille wrote:

>
> On Saturday, Mar 8, 2003, at 21:59 Europe/Zurich, Cory Preus wrote:
>
> > + More: "If manage my email faster, all it does is let me manage more
> > emails."
>
> Ummm... right... what about:
>
> "If I get a better car, all it does is let me drive more."
>
> Which I would presume is a bad thing.
>
> > A dangerous proposition, if you ask me. I like Zoe well enough, but
> > really, it breeds a nasty habit of saving data. For what? Yeah,
> > storage is effectively free nowadays, but saving something just
> > because merely compounds the problem of email (info) overload.
>
> Ummm... perhaps... on the other hand nobody is complaining about Google
> "googling" more web sites to provide more relevant search results. So I
> doubt that the fact that there is _potentially_ a lot more data
> available has anything to do with information overload. I will venture
> that the difference is how much data one has to deal with at any given
> time (e.g. the relevance of the information).
>
> > Deletion is something we are uncomfortable with...like anything else
> > that has "finality".
>
> Perhaps... or simply because "deletion" requires making a irrevocable
> decision now: should I, or shouldn't I. And why should your software
> bother you with such trivial questions all the time? Alternatively, if
> an "email graveyard" (e.g. an archive) did exists, delete would simply
> mean "get out of my way" while allowing to resuscitate the dead when
> necessary (e.g. through search).
>
> All of this bring up an interesting option: the "out of sight, out of
> mind" inbox filter. Instead of having things pile up in one's inbox,
> screaming for one's attention, perhaps there should be a rule that
> says: if not told otherwise, get out of my way (e.g. archive somewhere
> for latter perusal). And if the "get out of my way" is the default
> rule, the only thing that one would need to worry is to catch "sticky"
> mails: the ones you would like to pay attention too.
>
> PA.
>
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