Email are a strange beast. They try to mimic normal snail mail, but we Email are way different from snail mail. You have multiple sender, you can carbon copies, you can have blank carbon copies, you forward them. Any time you have an operation on an Emaul the operation happens on the copy of the email. At least that what the perception is given to the normal user.
Different Email clients have made it possible to see Emails in totally different ways. For example Gmail let you see a thread of conversion group together. Although it is one of those features which either someone absolutely loves to absolutely hates it.
I have trying to think about Email or Variation of Email system with out any particular problem in mind. So basically i am trying to think of variation of Email and then trying to find how it can be used. Agree this might not be a optimal way to solve anything useful, but it is a fun excersise.
So lately I have been thinking about a Public Email system. A inbox shared by everyone or an inbox anyone has access. Think of a mail box in the middle of a town with an address and people can send mail to it and anyone can read it. Once some reads it the mail is gone. So first come first server principle applies here. Further more the person who read it can then forward/reply like a normal email.
What will be a system like that useful for?
Tags: Random Ideas
October 2, 2010 at 12:07 pm |
Reminds me of anonymous inboxes (http://www.google.de/search?q=anonymous+inbox+mail), just a bit more stupid since mails are deleted after reading, so if someone read your mail, you have bad luck.