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Email, at first, seemed like an ideal way to communicate. It's easy and cost effective. Unfortunately, these days more time is spent deleting spam emails, sorting other emails, and keeping the size of my inbox under control. Does the way we manage email need to be redefined?

View A

Email organization needs to be redefined or changed in some way to minimize the clutter of our inbox and simplify the process of sorting emails.

View B

Email clients such as Gmail have succeeded in accomplishing the goal of email organization. I no longer have email issues since I've been using it.

10 comment(s) so far

zilliyao thinks: It is high time that Email organization redefined or changed in some way to minimize the clutter of our inbox and simplify the process of sorting emails;

Everday, I receive lots of waste mails in my email inbox.

digiammarco thinks: Gmail has indeed changed my e-mail life, and I can only hope the corporate world endorses it. We should be able to Google for anything, shouldn't we?

BigCheez thinks: Gmail has done wonderful things with the way we organize and interact with email although it seems email is slowly losing its value thanks to spammers. Google, by far, has created the best tool to manage email issues, but I'd like to see more companies step up and create new innovations in the way we communicate.

AliB thinks: According to this Reuters article, 9 out of 10 email are spam. The real issue is limiting and eventually eliminating this spam in order to give us access to only our relevant emails. If we continue at this rate, email will lose all its value as a method of communication.

jk thinks: With e-mail addressing we let people know where we are. How about e-mail communication which does not require each party to expose routing information.

ztyler thinks: jk, what do you mean by 'routing information'? You don't want someone to know your email address?

crayzon thinks: Email seems to be on it's way out as a form of communication much like my postal mail which I rarely read and just throw away unless it's a bill.

chrisek thinks: I've made several attempts, in vain I might add, to organize my inbox. Amazingly, within a few days, it's back to the cluttered disaster it once was.

ca thinks: Soon email will die away to instant messaging if it continues to be as complex as it has become, as all the value inherint to it are diminished due to spammers.

JBonnin thinks: Hail to Gmail! Just a click and...

Hooray, no spam here! :)