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by bogeholm 1457 days ago
Well, sounds like a pretty effective back-off multiplier to me :) With recipient-configurable values of course.

Maybe the problem with email is that is it such an old installation, in lack of a better word. I feel like there’s a better - almost similar - format waiting right around the corner.

In particular, sending has to incur some sort of ‘cost’ in terms of time or effort. This [0] needs to be doubly conservative.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle