# Next step for e-mail

- Date: 2006-02-25T01:45:43Z


By Thomas Crampton

For me, e-mail has long been the Internet's killer application, but isn't it ready for a makeover or update?

Some things I would like to include:

--  Delayed sending of e-mail to hit people at the most appropriate time (sometimes to myself as a reminder)

--  Conversely, a smart filter that knows when to send me what sort of e-mail. This system would alert me by SMS when I had an urgent message and hold some messages until Monday if I checked my e-mail over the weekend.

What features would you add to e-mail?


Note: I may cross-post comments on the IHT blog and they may be reproduced in the paper for publication.