E-mail (as a system) is broken

It occurs to me today, as I try repeatedly to do something so simple as to coordinate a group project via e-mail, that e-mail is a broken system.

I have not been able to consistently recieve and send e-mail with people I need to be in contact with for months. On average, I have to send an e-mail twice to get it somewhere, and on average, I tend to recieve about 25% of the e-mail people (claim) to send me.

That’s a broken system. I can’t rely on it.