The basic issue is Email has two critically important properties that
make it uniquely useful despite the age of the service and the cruft
that has accumulated due to that age:
1. decentralized control
2. communication without introduction
If you don't preserve these two properties, then
On 11/13/20 11:03 AM, Mikko Rantalainen wrote:
Keith Moore (2020-11-13 17:26 Europe/Helsinki):
To the extent email delivery is reliable, it is because of persistence
in relaying traffic. Many mail user agents are not in a good position
to do that. It is generally better to submit the
FWIW, you appear to have responded to a message that hasn't made it to
the list yet.
Ned
Short version: this is, in many cases, a Bad Idea.
To the extent email delivery is reliable, it is because of persistence
in relaying traffic. Many mail user agents are
Short version: this is, in many cases, a Bad Idea.
To the extent email delivery is reliable, it is because of persistence
in relaying traffic. Many mail user agents are not in a good position
to do that. It is generally better to submit the message to a service
that is well-connected and