I have to agree with your remarks although I'd like to add that, in my view, eMail use will approach a horizontal asymptote: ending as a sort of "good old standby".    "FWIW" I think more and more people are recognizing the issues with "social media" and this seems to manifest as the "in crowd" ( whoever that is ? -- "millenials"  ?  teens ? ) -- tend to shift from fad to fad

from a business standpoint e/mail seems to be "base" communication: the one we expect net users to have -- at a minimum.   i.e. the odds of a network user having e/mail would be higher than that he or she would be on a particular social media.

i terms of e/mail though -- and I suspect most folks would agree -- the trend seems to be to web-base clients -- although these seem to be sluggish and messy  .  

On 12/02/2015 01:38 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
this is nonetheless an interesting development.   on the one hand I'd
hate to see Thunderbird lapse and become inconsequential .
To a large extent it already has.  Email usage has been declining for
many years.  The largest person-to-person communications medium today is
Facebook Messenger.  (Which has all manner of privacy implications,
don't get me wrong; I'm not endorsing this change.)

Email is a diminishing market, and email clients like Thunderbird are
grabbing a diminishing share of a diminishing market.  The only good
news is that since the entire system is open-source, it's going to be
harder to kill than Rasputin.

And as long as Thunderbird's around, we're going to be, too.  :)

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