Comments on: Failbox: The Broken State of Email Clients – Part 1 http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/failbox-the-broken-state-of-email-clients-part-1 User Experience Strategy, Ruby and Rails Web App Development Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:38:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mike Keliher http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/failbox-the-broken-state-of-email-clients-part-1/comment-page-1#comment-56897 Mike Keliher Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:33:46 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/?p=1440#comment-56897 Ditching the unread number works for reading RSS feeds, as it's rather silly to think you could or should read all of that stuff. (An "importance" filter is a great prioritizing assistant.) But in the realm of e-mail, most people would, could or should (or even *must*) read all of it, especially that which actually came from a human and isn't dumped in to a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacn_(electronic)" rel="nofollow">bacn</a> folder." I'm all for a new way to "do e-mail," especially something that effectively (not just *technically*) addresses Julio's concern above. But I wonder if ditching the unread number isn't a harder, perhaps inappropriate, sell in this area. Ditching the unread number works for reading RSS feeds, as it’s rather silly to think you could or should read all of that stuff. (An “importance” filter is a great prioritizing assistant.) But in the realm of e-mail, most people would, could or should (or even *must*) read all of it, especially that which actually came from a human and isn’t dumped in to a “bacn folder.”

I’m all for a new way to “do e-mail,” especially something that effectively (not just *technically*) addresses Julio’s concern above. But I wonder if ditching the unread number isn’t a harder, perhaps inappropriate, sell in this area.

]]> By: Tim http://garrickvanburen.com/archive/failbox-the-broken-state-of-email-clients-part-1/comment-page-1#comment-56370 Tim Wed, 28 May 2008 04:41:43 +0000 http://garrickvanburen.com/?p=1440#comment-56370 I remember having little emails at all! they were all important and relevant. Now its about 300 spam messages a day on gmail alone. You are right, they need to innovate in this space. Especially since most people are still using outlook with all its brokenness... The field is very still, not much innocation going on at all. Only thing I came accross in last few months was xobni.com; kind of fixes outlook! I remember having little emails at all! they were all important and relevant. Now its about 300 spam messages a day on gmail alone. You are right, they need to innovate in this space. Especially since most people are still using outlook with all its brokenness… The field is very still, not much innocation going on at all. Only thing I came accross in last few months was xobni.com; kind of fixes outlook!

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