> If email isn't fixed (by replacing SMTP), then I'm afraid it'll wane > through attrition, and be relegated to a corporate messaging system.
> 16 year olds today tend to use SMS and social applications, [...] > HTTP will probably replace SMTP, and when that happens Google, > Hotmail and Yahoo will be able to elbow out everyone else. And those of us who _do_ use SMTP will be able to take it back again, once its user population is too small to be attractive to spammers. Oddly enough, most of the people I care about communicating with would, I suspect, be among "those of us" if/when that happens. I've already had to block gmail, hotmail, and yahoo for assorted abusive behaviours and am considering blocking the rest of google; if they were to stop doing SMTP I would be delighted. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
