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

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sat, 30 April 2022 03:20 UTC

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> It will certainly be an unpopular thing to say but I will say it: Protocols
> wear out over time.

In principle I wouldn't disagree, but in practice I don't see how we 
migrate from SMTP to SMTP++ or whatever.

You know as well as anyone that for decades people have been saying e-mail 
is dead, everyone uses X instead, but the X keeps changing and e-mail is 
still around.

R's,
John

PS:

> For mailing list delivery, just switch to NNTP, someone has a gateway.

I've been gatewaying IETF lists to my local NNTP server for years.  Works 
great.

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