Abstract
The prevailing messaging service in the internet has always been the electronic mail. Despite multiple potential competitors have emerged since it started in early 1970’s, e-mail still has the highest share among users. The properties of e-mail and their major competitors are briefly reviewed in order to understand current challenges for e-mail. There are unconfirmed expectations for e-mail to weaken its position primarily among young generations. Therefore, prospects for a future for messaging services (not exclusively e-mail) are presented by results of a small-scale poll among more than 200 messaging users in universities.
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At that time, the total estimated number of active mailboxes was 4.1 billion.
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The poll is still available at https://goo.gl/forms/32R8x9yFVuBL4zyX2.
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Sochor, T., Chalupova, N. (2019). Survey on Messaging in the Internet. In: Silhavy, R. (eds) Cybernetics and Automation Control Theory Methods in Intelligent Algorithms. CSOC 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 986. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19813-8_14
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