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The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Macao
Posts: 2,364
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looking forward to the launch of products from two exciting email providers
I?m eagerly looking forward to the launch of products from two exciting email providers.
The first one is @x.com. Beyond its super cool domain name, this email service is tightly integrated with Twitter. Could we eventually read and compose tweets directly via email? With Grok AI in the mix, it?s easy to imagine composing emails or replying to tweets becoming incredibly seamless in the future. The second one is @thundermail.com. While the domain is a bit longer, it?s developed by the team behind Thunderbird. This opens up the potential for seamless integration with Thunderbird, including shared email accounts, contacts, cloud storage, and calendars. Beyond that, I?m also hoping to see an iOS client for Thunderbird in the future. Imagine Thunderbird establishing its own cloud account ecosystem, much like Apple?s iCloud Mail. With Apple, Microsoft, Google, and now Thunderbird each offering their own cloud ecosystems, Thunderbird?s focus on open-source solutions could make it a favorite among power users. |
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Join Date: Feb 2024
Posts: 54
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The system will be overburdened on its first day of operation. Aside from the short domain name, there is nothing interesting. You saw what he did on Twitter. I believe the email service is no exception.
The email market is saturated, and there have been no significant improvements in recent years. The game is in the hands of the big players. |
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#3 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2022
Posts: 155
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x.com: Meh.
thundermail.com: I like and regularly use Thunderbird, so I will check this out. AI: I know when posts have been generated using AI, which I consider to be detrimental to this forum. |
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#4 |
Master of the @
Join Date: Feb 2017
Location: USA
Posts: 1,956
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Weird post. What makes these two exciting before they've even launched? Will reserve judgment on Thunder mail until we see what it's like, and won't have anything to do with a Musk project. The guy who has wrecked Twitter, Tesla, and much of our federal government.
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#5 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: USA
Posts: 2,104
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x.com will probably be as yucky as his other thing he destroyed
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#6 |
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Join Date: Jun 2023
Posts: 91
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Short domains are the only thing to look forward to.
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#7 |
The "e" in e-mail
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: in between the bright lights and the far unlit unknown
Posts: 2,385
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I agree that the short @x.com domain is tempting.
However, the service it is linked to has become very controversial in recent times, so I don't know if it is wised to use such email service instead of a more neutral one. Besides, are you sure @x.com email addresses will become available? In an earlier topic it was said the domain would be @xmail.com instead of @x.com If email services (regardless which ones) would include AI technology to write emails, I'd either want the option to disactivate that option, or else stay away from the service alltogether. I find texts created by AI missing any kind of human emotion. I'd rather have a poorly phrased but well-intended message in my email than one created by a machine. I mean, we never sent letters by post created with AI, did we? The fact it's been created/written by a human makes it more valuable, even if it means it's more prone to spelling errors or linguistic errors. I've never used AI so far (at least, not that I know of) and I'm not having any plans to start using it. Human emotions cannot be replaced by machines. |
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Cornerstone of the Community
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Scotland
Posts: 575
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On Amazon, there is something similar just above user reviews, summarising them. (I dislike it as there's no way to tell - short of reading lots of reviews, which I'd do anyway - if the summary is skewed to the vendor's or Amazon's benefit.) I do not plan to use intentionally an AI either - I've seen enough generated garbage (on tech mail lists) not to trust it, & even if I did trust genned code I wish to learn how things work, not get a possibly-flawed solution just handed to me. But what I really don't understand is how, for a real-world problem, anyone can explain to an automated system what a program is meant to do, with all the ins+outs. It seems to me that that needs a program-specification, for which natural language is often not precise enough (especially if the person providing it doesn't think in a structured way). I had the same issue when introduced (40+ years ago) to the formal mathematical basis of proving a computer program 'correct'. The multiple pages of maths 'proving' a single statement would work were complex & who was going to prove /them/ correct, or that they exactly corresponded to the intended meaning of the program? Last edited by JeremyNicoll : 15 May 2025 at 07:06 AM. Reason: fix spelling mistake |
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Cornerstone of the Community
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Rupert, WV
Posts: 901
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#10 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 127
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Thundermail is what I'm interested in but I'm an iphone user. Waiting on their mobile app to come out first.
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