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Email protocols are broken because they are bad 1990s protocols that haven't benefited from 20 years of systems learning about building protocols. I don't much care who does or doesn't have a hard time monetizing them.


It’s even older than that. It was originally released in the early 80s but is based on mail transfer protocols developed in the 70s.

Email dates from an era when it was safe to trust people connecting to your server because everyone knew those individuals personally.

That methodology hasn’t scaled in 30 years.


> Email protocols are broken because they are bad 1990s protocols (...)

I see arguments for "non-modern" not "broken". Some wines aging better doesn't necessarily mean that others deteriorate.




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