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Re: Mail is worse than everything except all the alternatives, was Service outages planned for April 25

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Sat, 30 April 2022 18:20 UTC

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On 4/30/22 13:33, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:

> This is, at least from my perspective, rather an exaggeration of the
> scope of problems.  Even though I am not even bothering with DKIM or
> DMARC, or otherwise jumping through any hoops, I am not encountering any
> issues with email delivery.
It probably happens to me about once a month.  But some of the delivery 
failures have been extremely costly.
> I still find myself from time to time taking advantage of searches
> through my mailbox for decade+ year old messages, something that is
> simply not viable for SMS, Skype, Signal, ...  Email is the only digital
> medium where one can expect to be able to retain long-term
> correspondence

That's one of the many reasons that I believe that nothing else comes 
close to email.  When it works at all, that is.

Keith

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