
Get Tgethr: A Simple Email Collaboration Tool - vaksel
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/16/get-tgethr-a-simple-email-collaboration-tool/
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gvb
Looks like Mailman <http://www.list.org/> (except Mailman doesn't help with
encryption, you have to figure it out yourself).

FWIIW, my experience is that Microsoft Outlook and web-based email interfaces
have trained users to use incredibly bad habits with email (crappy quoting,
top posting (a subset of crappy quoting), 200K Word documents for a 5 line
memo, megabyte .BMP screen shots, etc.). This really hurts email list
usefulness until and unless the users improve their habits.

Unfortunately...

a) Outlook use is usually required by The Corporate Overlords. Even if it
isn't required, users that don't know better insist on using it because it
allows them to paste Mbyte .BMP screen shots into it. :-(

b) While Outlook can be configured for usable quoting, nobody bothers to do
so.

c) Even if configured in the best way it supports, Outlook is still
suboptimal.

d) Web based email interfaces are generally even less configurable than
Outlook and they all aspire to mimic Outlook, including promoting all of the
crappy habits.

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ideamonk
I'm not sure if anyone's gonna buy this. I understand from my look at tgethr
that its about collaboration, security and email wrapped into new clothes. But
then, the popularity of a service hugely depends on the size of its userbase
right? How would tgethr ever get a huge userbase by putting restrictions and
making people buy to get a feel in the first place.

I think the domain togethr.com would've been better, matches the
pronounciation ... tgethr sounds like T gethr or something... I keep
forgetting the domain for I thought it was togethr when I tried to open it
after 20 minutes...

I wish tgethr could have a nice favicon, can't see any in chrome.

BstOfLck

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quizbiz
I'm not sure I understand the concept of Email Collaboration...

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robryan
I'm not sure I understand the concept of all these startups with names warping
the English language.

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buro9
Lack of domain names.

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ardit33
Lame guys. I think the email encryption is probably the biggest feature, and
you left it out from the try out. The only way to try it if it works for you
is to pay for it.

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yankeeracer73
Actually that's not true - you can try any plan for 30 days for free, then you
pay.

