On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 11:59 AM, katana <katana@riseup.net> wrote:

... as Ladar replied in <http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/13/exclusive_owner_of_snowdens_email_service> to Amy's question 'Do you think people should use email?': 'Yeah, I think it’s a great way to communicate ... And I think email still has a very important role to play in communication between people.' ACK.

it is a question of private vs. public communication. email is and will continue to be useful for public communication. this gmail account indexes 190+ lists, 10,000 news alerts from scores of filters (everything from "TS//SI//NF" to "Flame OR Gauss OR Duqu OR Stuxnet" to Goldreich–Goldwasser–Halevi), a total of 643,132 pieces of communication. i can search through all of it in seconds and apply new filters to existing content just as easily as new, and keep an offline backup just in case. but there is zero i would consider private; for that use a medium of communication that is not a usability failure, that is not a metadata leakage nightmare, that is not an operational security mine field. let email _for private communication_ die already, please!