ShoddyPop (by Lindley et al, 2009)

ShoddyPop is an email server that is rather unreliable. Ease of sending is preserved, and senders can be sure that their message will be delivered, but the delivery time is subject to variation. This means that recipients and senders cannot rely on the time of delivery to drive the tempo of a response, allowing the recipient to take their time before replying, or even to craft their reply over a number of days.

Source: Lindley, S. E., Harper, R., and Sellen, A. 2009. Desiring to be in touch in a changing communications landscape. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’09). ACM Press, 1693–1702.

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