I have to say I agree with George. People on this list are in the 0.00001% of technical users and as such are really the people that should be discussing if email is broken.<br><br>I currently support over 300 users and to my knowledge none of them use threaded view or give a monkeys about top posting. <br>
Only a few of them use forums and even less use mailing lists<br>We have a limit on our email server so numpties that try to mail massive attachments fail with a bounced message<br><br>IMHO the single biggest problem is they send to many emails, rather then thinking about what they are sending and making sure it all goes in one mail, or even, gasp, picking up the phone instead. The more mails you send the more you have to respond to.<br>
<br>Many of the issues i see are nothing to do with the desktop paradigm (whatever that may be) they are mostly down to training needs in how to use the email program and more often then not training needs in time and email management techniques;<br>
<br>A case in point is a user I recently came across who over 50 folders within his inbox and over 4500 unread messages distributed amongst them. Instead of marking mails for follow up or moving them into a folder for follow up, he was marking them as unread. Also was relaying on the preview pane in outlook rather then actually reading the messages and so was often missing the second half of the message.<br>
<br>With this kind of user it doesn't matter how you design your email system and they will always use it in a different way.<br>