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0 pointsprmoustache1y ago0 comments

Well it is quite easy. No real humam has been using email anymore in the last 5 years or so.

Even in the workplace it is now common for most people to have a signature saying "only contact me via ms teams".

I am pretty sure that sooner or later the spam will find its way on teams/slack/discord the same way it does on whatsapp but at the very least they are easier to block permanently.

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gambiting1y ago

>>No real humam has been using email anymore in the last 5 years or so

Wow, that's some extrapolating from a personal bubble if I've ever seen one. Plenty of workplaces still have email as their default communication method.

prmoustacheOP1y ago

There is obviously a little bit of exaggeration but when I open my email at the workplace the bulk of the mails are:

- semi automated reminders (you haven't filled your timesheets!), usually sent by humans but that do not expect answers - internal newsletters - general HR news - special news: electrical issues at the office, stay at home! - spam

Bottom line: none is addressed to you as a particular human, nor require answers.

I am sure it changes for people who have interactions with people outside of the company but I would hate having their job and don't understand why companies haven't adopted XMPP widely to make those kind of interactions. I can theorically receive spam via XMPP, but it requires at the very least that I approve the relationship before hand so if it comes from a domain I don't expect I have no reason to accept that trust.

But on personal side, I haven't received anything from a human for years. People I know usually know my phone number and contact me via instant messaging.

gambiting1y ago

Right, but that's an anecdote - and if we're sharing those my last company that I left very recently everything was an email. If you needed to speak to a lead or a developer from another team you'd email them, even though we had MS teams. You'd maybe ping the person on Teams for a quick thought, but if it was anything more complicated than couple messages you'd send an email. And that was a a big corporation of 40k people.

>>But on personal side, I haven't received anything from a human for years.

I actually have an old friend back from high school and we talk daily using emails. He doesn't use any IM apps so it kinda stuck as our default way of talking.

And of course I exchange emails whenever there's some kind of customer service thing that needs to be dealt with - it's always best to have things in writing.

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gambiting1y ago

>>No real humam has been using email anymore in the last 5 years or so

Wow, that's some extrapolating from a personal bubble if I've ever seen one. Plenty of workplaces still have email as their default communication method.

prmoustacheOP1y ago

There is obviously a little bit of exaggeration but when I open my email at the workplace the bulk of the mails are:

Bottom line: none is addressed to you as a particular human, nor require answers.

But on personal side, I haven't received anything from a human for years. People I know usually know my phone number and contact me via instant messaging.

gambiting1y ago

>>But on personal side, I haven't received anything from a human for years.

I actually have an old friend back from high school and we talk daily using emails. He doesn't use any IM apps so it kinda stuck as our default way of talking.

And of course I exchange emails whenever there's some kind of customer service thing that needs to be dealt with - it's always best to have things in writing.

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