eekim.com: EEK Speaks

Sat, Jul 26, 2003

Won't Someone Write a Decent E-mail Client? #

BrianLincoln was complaining about e-mail clients recently, and he said that he was willing to pay $1,000 for a good e-mail management tool. That's a stunning statement, if you think about it. E-mail is probably more widely used than word processing, and probably ranks near even with Web browsing. Several companies have devoted large budgets to building e-mail clients, and there are several open source initiatives as well. You would think that there would at least be once decent e-mail client by now. (40)

Despite all of this, I completely agree with Brian. I haven't found anything that comes close to doing even mostly what I want. (41)

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/tech/email | Posted at 11:22am

Thu, Jul 17, 2003

LaughingMeme #

One of my pet peeves/interests is e-mail: patterns of e-mail usage, ways to improve the tool, how e-mail fits into the collaborative tools world. We're using SmartList at Blue Oxen Associates. It's very hackable, but it's also very user-unfriendly. For archiving e-mail, we're using MHonArc and mharc. I'd like to eventually replace all three tools with something better. (27)

Some series of random events got me thinking about syndicating our archives as RSS, a topic that's come up before. I did a quick Google search and discovered Kellan Elliott-McCrea's recent posting on this topic. (28)

Reviewing his blog, LaughingMeme, was an absolute joy. There's lots of good stuff there on tools, and he's hacked his site in interesting ways as well. For example, he's implemented a "Similar Entries" feature on his blog using a Latent Semantic Indexing Perl module. Definitely a blog to watch. (29)

Some mailing list archiving tools mentioned on LaughingMeme: (2A)

Zest (2B)
Archive (2C)

/tech/email | Posted at 12:28pm