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by andrewfelix 5063 days ago
Email is great. But long threads with various forwards and cc's become incredibly painful. Gmail have gone some way to fixing it, but Fluent.io looked like they were doing a great job (Judging by the demo videos)
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But isn't that what tools like Basecamp and such are for? Email is great, IMO people just use it for the wrong things.
>IMO people just use it for the wrong things

CC's and Replies aren't what email is for?

Of course, but there is a limit. Email has attachments, CCs and replies - that doesn't mean it should be used for version control.