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If you had to invent email today, what would it look like?

We all live by email to varying degrees, but it really hasn't evolved much. Social media and chat are changing the way we communicate, but email is still pretty central. Given all the tools you have to work with, how could email be re-invented to maxmimize your productivity today? Would you use it more - less - or not at all?

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Dan Snyder
Director of Technical Operations
Posted on Aug. 31, 2010
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I'd build in optional authentication -- you could easily, from any email client, turn on or off the "you must know a password to send me a message or else your domain has to be pre-whitelisted by me" feature.

Messages that didn't have the password or weren't pre-whitelisted would go to a quarantine area that could be reviewed or ignored.

I'd make it so that you had to pay a small fee to send an email to more than 10 people at a time, or more than 100 emails from a single account in any 24 hour period.

All of these features would have to be built into the core, free, SMTP-equivalent protocol level.

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