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by dTal 1510 days ago
Ah yes, time to break out this old classic: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt

  ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
  ( ) Unpopularity of weird new taxes
  ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
  ( ) Huge existing software investment in SMTP
  ( ) Sending email should be free
1 comments
throw10920 1510 days ago
It's fortunate that none of those are "checked" in the ASCII art, because none of them actually apply.

> Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once

False. As a silver lining to the Google/Microsoft email oligopoly, those providers could announce that anyone wanting to send email to those services will have to implement this protocol, and it could be done in less than a year.

> Unpopularity of weird new taxes

Irrelevant. No taxes involved - there's no money here, and users won't care if their mail takes an extra few seconds to send, because they don't expect email to be low latency anyway

> Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money

Irrelevant - no new money involved.

> Huge existing software investment in SMTP

Irrelevant - a small number of server software are used by the majority of users. Also, see earlier point about oligopoly.

> Sending email should be free

Bad idea, and irrelevant, because it still would be.

I suggest you put thought into copypasta before putting it into a comment.

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