On Tue, Sep 18, 2018, 8:43 PM Jan Claeys <li...@janc.be> wrote: > On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 18:07 -0400, David Mertz wrote: > > Since 1972, there have been hundreds of reinventions of a means of > > carying on electronic conversations intended to be "better than > > email." The one thing they all have in common is that they are vastly > > worse than email. > > I don't 100% agree with that. > > E.g., there are better protocols when you need real-time conversations, > because (internet) email isn't necessarily good at that (by design). >
Good point, 1988 IRC also serves a good purpose that is also poorly copied in hundreds of new systems. :-) >
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