Sure, email sorting would be nice if it was intelligent. And yes, it would be OK if my email client worked with social networking sites. Sounds great on paper, so far.
But this does not sound promising at all:
New Yahoo Mail software, Filo explained, will look through these networks and determine how often a user contacts particular people. From this and other data, the in-box will automatically sort your incoming e-mails based on the strength of the sender's relationship to you. For instance, e-mails from the people you communicate with most frequently over MySpace or other services will be at the top of the in-box. "The other e-mails are still there," says Filo; they just don't appear at the top of the list.
Does anyone else (particularly someone in the private sector) understand how stupid this is? More often than not, the person emailing you that you have never heard of before is a potential client, and the last thing you want to do is dump that message in the bottom of the inbox. And that email you get every day from your best friend — does that really need to be at the top of the list, or is it all right if you took a couple of days to write back?
I'm just saying . . .