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> If you ever exchanged messages on ICQ, AIM, MSN Messenger, Skype, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Hangouts, GChat, BlackBerry Messenger, or Campfire your messages are now gone.

I've got archives of transcripts, from when I was using Gaim/Pidgin. I said some cringe things 20 years ago.

I see E-mail as the way to broadcast information to a bunch of people. I see messaging as a way to have conversations. There's maybe some overlap at the edges, but I see most kinds of communication as being much better-suited to one or the other.



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