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The idea/term of "Outbox" really reminds me of email of the old days (in the 90s) where you have a desktop email client (e.g. Eudora, or Internet Mail and News, or even earlier versions of Outlook Express) that don't do auto-sends, and only connect to your POP3/SMTP servers when you click Send and Receive. This was probably due to internet being on dial-up and being billed by the minutes was common so users limited their internet time (e.g. disconnect from internet if writing a long email response, etc.). I have a lot of nostalgia from those days vs the always-on culture now.

I like that you were able to spot this particular usage pattern as something to narrow in on for your product. I don't know if this would catch on as a trend (for example, like ephemeral messaging did when Snap came out), but I wish you all the best!

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your nick hints you fancy waiting. I like that.

But humans are herd animals after all and long to keep in touch with the herd. All the time. Like the borg. Even more so, if addiction is exploitable. You hear me, facebok.

Indeed 1x day may be much healthier, but prbly too adult to catch.

You're totally right and tapping into the herd dynamic is really the only way to get substantial movement to happen with anything. That's why culture and society is so focused on leadership, right? My hope is that I will be able to get "influencer"-type people to help lead the way. Without that, people will continue moving in their current direction. But with leaders, I think adoption of anything is possible.

> so focused on leadership, right?

indeed, and repetition as a lever of the leaders. Repetition makes people believe anything plus forgetting it's a belief.

If you hear 'mooo' all day long, you better behave like a cow. You'll be treated like one anyway. That's nothing to think about. Mental firmware does that.

> your nick hints you fancy waiting.

If the GP is Godot, doesn't that hint they fancy keeping others waiting? ;-)

> This was probably due to internet being on dial-up and being billed by the minutes was common so users limited their internet time (e.g. disconnect from internet if writing a long email response, etc.).

You can remove the "probably", it was exactly for that. Most often then not you would write offline, send the email (which would go in the "outbox") and then later on you would eventually connect to the Internet and send/receive emails.

Because hitting that send and receive could prompt a five minute wait, essentially blocking other uses of the OS.

Mmmh I kept using the OS when Sylpheed was sending/receiving emails, or Outlook Express when I was using Windows.

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