Talk:Email

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Usage other than webmail?

Are there any numbers for people using e-mail with, e.g., IMAP4, POP3, SMTP, clients on their computers? Without those numbers it's hard to guage the relevance of a drop in webmail usage. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 04:13, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Please do not edit cited quotations for flow and readability

A quote is not a paraphrase and it is not appropriate to reword it, although it is appropriate to, e.g., inset (sic), replace extraneous text with ellipses.. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 15:53, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Flow and readability are important, but not at the expense of accuracy

Recent edits by 2600:387:b:9a2::14 shortened some of the text for improved readability, but in the process introduced errors. In particular, there is a major difference between it seemed likely that either … would predominate (a true claim about expectations of market penetration) and either … would dominate. (a false claim about actual market penetration.) Also, earlier edits from the same IP address changed quoted text; quotes, especially those in {{cite|quote=}}, are not paraphrases and should remain exactly as given in the source, except for alterations that are clearly editorial, e.g., replacing extraneous text with ellipses.

I would have edited the article, but there are pending revisions. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 16:26, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

"How email works" listed at Redirects for discussion

A discussion is taking place to address the redirect How email works. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 May 2#How email works until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 15:15, 2 May 2020 (UTC)

About email article

I want to say this i hear from someone that email was bot invented in America its Shiva Ayyadurai , a 14 year old boy from India invented it in 1978 Satyampandey543 (talk) 12:23, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

@Satyampandey543: Such a claim needs verification from a reliable source. Do you have any citations? Peaceray (talk) 15:16, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Unless the boy had a time machine he was not the first even of he actually existed and was not aware of prior art. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 17:07, 5 May 2020 (UTC)

Terminology section, changing origin of term from 1993 to 1979

The sentence "Electronic mail is called email or e-mail since around 1993" cited a link to output of a Google program that analyzes word frequency, apparently from a particular set of books Google scanned. That's not a reliable source for the claim, and even if it were, you could make the case for any year in the query's output range (1980 to 1995); 1993 seems like an arbitrary choice by whoever wrote the sentence.

I changed the sentence to "The term electronic mail has been in use with its current meaning since at least 1975, and variations of the shorter E-mail have been in use since at least 1979", citing the OED and WaPo. I chose the E-mail variation for that sentence, since that's the specific format used in the 1979 example the OED cites.