On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 13:50 -0400, Bill Cole wrote: > In 30 years of working with Internet email, I have never seen any > fully > automated mechanism for making its delivery reliable in general, > non-contracted cases.
... > There is no virtual replacement for a physical process server. Maybe > someday that will mean robots of some sort (e.g. drones) but before I embark on an interesting conversation, can somebody confirm that I am not veering off-topic? I came here for a technical solution. Jerry gave an elegant one, although I am not ethically comfortable with it. The problem of Internet email is the problem of any federated standard. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Internet email is being replaced by text messaging, and I dare betting that fax will survive Internet email, because fax has a niche that Internet email has failed to create for itself. Fax niche is the communication with adverse interest. A minimum common denominator, that enable the less powerful of the parties to stay in the game. Internet email could have been even better. Could have... I am not expecting process serving standards (though I wish mechanical process serving could be replaced by something electronic). Just the same reliability of fax transmission (if the message gets lost after the 250, the fax operator is liable) would be good enough to give Internet email more purpose than the delivery of spam. -- Yuval Levy, JD, MBA, CFA Ontario-licensed lawyer https :// moneylaw.ca Tel: 1.844.234.5389 Fax: 1.888.900.5709
