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Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net> Wed, 18 June 2025 05:07 UTC

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On 6/17/2025 4:43 PM, Martin J. Dürst wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> On 2025-06-17 01:31, John R. Levine wrote:
>
>> Incidentally, the reason that mail will never go away is that it is 
>> fully federated, doesn't require people to be online at the same 
>> time, and is easy to archive and search.  So far none of the 
>> replacements do that.
>
> Another indication of the continued importance of email: Whenever you 
> sign up for yet another service, you get asked for an email address.

.. and you give it, and you find it that the hotel cannot actually send 
mail to your address, because it is somehow blacklisted by their own 
email service. Which did happen to me, with a large hotel chain.

-- Christian Huitema

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