Email Clients
If someone typed something
like date +"%Y" at his terminal, assuming that he
used the
Gregorian calendar, he would probably see something like
2005. If the same person was to read
RFC196,
he would probably see July 20, 1971 near the beginning.
Only 13 years after the discovery of
the Bessemer
process we had
the first
transcontinental railroad, after more that 30 years of email,
all email clients suck.
Anyone who uses email for something else than remote backups knows what I'm talking about. If you need to read your emails from more than one location you can probably forget all the nice "native" clients. But webmails requires heavy usage of the mouse, lacks many important features like a usable spell-checker and incremental search. All the webmail service provider have EULA that requires your first born and a pint of fresh blood a month. Namespace pollution is another problem, I don't want my email to be y._kk_gingras234252_asd@example.com, I want ygingras@ygingras.net. So called native clients have pretty UI but when some important feature is needed we feel that they don't want to mess too much with that UI so the feature get postponed. Spam is a plague but a great thinker found a solution a few years ago already.