On Tuesday, 15 January, 2019 12:10, James Downs wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 06:46:07PM +0100, Tei wrote:
>> Is very hard to replace a open protocol, wrapping may work if the
>> protocol is mostly abandoned (IRC) but thats not the case for
>> email.
> IRC is far from abandonded. There
On 01/15/2019 10:46 AM, Tei wrote:
I think the newsgroups died because was expensive for ISPs and filled
with nasty stuff (warez and porn).
I believe newsgroups are still very much so alive and quite active. I
see 15k ~ 20k messages / 50 ~ 75 MB of /text/ newsgroups daily on my
server. My
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 06:46:07PM +0100, Tei wrote:
> Is very hard to replace a open protocol, wrapping may work if the
> protocol is mostly abandoned (IRC) but thats not the case for email.
IRC is far from abandonded. There are lots of very active networks,
2 of which I use continously.
But,
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 at 09:21, Bjørn Mork wrote:
..
> open protocols, just shut off SMTP completely. They'll
> probably "invent" something much better as an excuse... And the masses
> will love them for that, because it finally removed the spam "problem".
>
> And everyone has a gmail account
On 1/15/19 12:19 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> And everyone has a gmail account anyway, so why bother with outside
> email?
Two words: "search warrants." I'm a US citizen, and I do NOT like the
idea of power-hungry people being able to paw through my mail. Having
my own mail server, residing in my
Miles Fidelman writes:
> Ever since the net went commercial, we've been seeing more and more
> walled gardens - driven by folks with an economic advantage to
> segmenting & capturing audiences. Whenever someone talks about how
> great some new technology is, I'm always reminded to "follow the
>
On 1/14/19 1:49 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
And you won't really have a choice because unless you're willing to go
full Ted Kaczynski one in a hundred of those emails will be very, very
important to you ...
Yeah. E-mail remains the only scheme where the two parties don't have
to be
And you won't really have a choice because unless you're willing to go
full Ted Kaczynski one in a hundred of those emails will be very, very
important to you ...
Yeah. E-mail remains the only scheme where the two parties
don't have to be introduced first, don't have to be online at the same
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