Hi, On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 04:00:09PM +0100, Joe wrote: > And are new computer users not pretty much compelled to set up a > Microsoft email address? It's getting more difficult to avoid. > Certainly a mobile phone user will be required to have an email address.
I think today's computer users regard these as transactional and just a nuisance, not something to actually use for fun, hobbies, or even work if possible. > I don't think email is going away I invite you to take any email-based community you are a part of and count up its messages per year for the last 10 years. I can think of only one example that possibly, just possibly may have grown in volume of messages, and that would be the Linux kernel mailing list. And I'm not even sure there. That one is a bit of an outlier since they have so many tools based around email workflows, that there are vast numbers of messages that are read only by other bits of software not directly by any human. Long term I don't think LKML will stick with this, I don't think LKML will inspire others to reverse the trend, and Debian absolutely 100% will not manage that either. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
