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It is time to ban email. (shkspr.mobi)

submitted 2 days ago by Cat@ponder.cat to c/technology@lemmy.zip

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[–] SpikesOtherDog@ani.social 3 points 2 days ago

None of these examples are problems caused by email itself.

The Metropolitan Police has apologised to victims of the Westminster "honeytrap" scandal after it accidentally sent an email which named all of them.

This could have just as easily been a social media post or a newspaper publication.

sent an email newsletter with all patient email addresses in the 'To' field, rather than the 'Bcc' field

This is caused by not understanding the tech just as much as they described. Sure, carbon copies are antiquated and hardly used. With those stakes, the newsletter should be sent using a managed process, not a human. Using some kind of proprietary delivery system has its own risks. I wouldn't want a specific HIV app on my phone to identify myself, and not everyone even uses smart phones.

Search any social network at any time of the year and you'll find people kvetching about its inadequacies.

Friendly reminder to use anything other than email if you need to have a conversation between multiple people that you have any hope in following.

You can literally find people bitching about anything. Look into why people hate Tom Hanks. Snarky complaints on social media are not great points

Email is getting out of hand and people use it in suboptimal ways.

Not everyone meditates on the most optimum way to use a tech product. You ever watch someone open Chrome, type Google in the unibar, locate the search field, and then type a url? I have watched techs paid much more than I do this same thing.

I am only now realizing that some ... [People] do not understand the concept of sending a file via email.

Again, everyone needs to learn it. I have met so many people afraid of their computer that this does not surprise me.

https://xkcd.com/1053/