What is broken about email?
1. Anyone can insert into your inbox.
2. Email clients are essentially web browsers. That's bad. Tracking / security issues abound.
3. Encryption is optional and maddeningly complex.
4. Email hosting is a oligopoly.
Oh, there's more...
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I’m all for fixing it as long as “fixing” it isn’t done in a proprietary way, handing control to any company or handful of companies. Network effects and ubiquity of email as it exists now make that difficult.
I totally agree. One option I've considered is something that layers over existing email protocols, but is encrypted, and uses something other than HTML for formatting (such as Markdown, for example).
Damn J !
Hmm, for me it's still ideal. It's been constant for me for 22 years. No friction and creating rules is easy. You worry too much.