On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:27 PM, Kyle Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Nico Williams <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> E-mail is not an online protocol between two MUAs. When you send an >> e-mail your MUA is not talking directly to the recipient's MUA, and >> there are no automated replies except for vacation replies. > > > That last assertion is demonstrably false. Among other things, there's the > "return receipt requested" processor. There's the "mailing list > distribution autoresponder". There is what I'm developing, which is exactly > what I'm talking about.
Sigh. I think I failed to finish that sentence. What I meant to say is that there are no unattended standard (de facto or otherwise) protocols based on e-mail that could be used to do what OTR does. Yes, such protocols are feasible. But there's a reason we've got them, and use them for IM (OTR) and not so much for e-mail: users wouldn't have the patience for an e-mail OTR. Nico -- _______________________________________________ therightkey mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/therightkey
