Re: the future of the computer world (was: Re: Google Gmail mailing list bounces)

[Yuri Khan]

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 3:29 PM Emanuel Berg via help-gnu-emacs
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:

> >> Are there data the number of e-mails sent
> >> worldwide are decreasing?
> >
> > They are not. It’s just that most of those
> > emails are notifications about something that
> > happened elsewhere. “You’ve got a new
> > {message|mention|comment} in
> > {Slack|Reddit|Facebook|JIRA|review
> > system|internet store|that PHP-based
> > forum|…}, {in order to read it|here’s a copy
> > of its text for your convenience, but in
> > order to reply}, please follow this link”.
>
> OK, but how do you know this? Where do you read
> this stuff? Is there a magazine or newsletter
> I've overlooked?

I don’t have to read that. I experience it. Apart from mailing lists
and an occasional email from friends and family, all my incoming mail
is like that.

(Also, whenever at my job somebody starts an email discussion, I wish
they would use Slack for that. Because corporate users cannot into
proper email quoting.)