[gdb]

Don't read it then! But it can still be useful to have a lot of auto-archived email in your inbox -- for example, searching for a name or topic will often pull up relevant threads you otherwise wouldn't have been discovered.

[fishnchips]

That's what mailing lists are for and it's hardly an innovation.

[gdb]

Yep. Email transparency gracefully degrades into just a plain old mailing list.