[alfiedotwtf]

This shows that email should die in a tyre fire and we all need to collectively move to something else… but we should have done this more than 10 years ago.

Email has SO many technical issues that if someone would have come out with email today, nobody would use it!

The ONLY thing going for it really is that it’s decentralised and has the network effect that almost everyone uses it. Bzzzt, I kid I kid!

Anyone under 25 will tell you they do NOT use emails and instead prefer instant message, and is email really decentralised? NO!! Try setting up your own relay and you’ll be dropped by any big service. Gmail+Outlook is basically a cartel with zero recourse!

Hmmm… could there even be a case of anti-trust given Gmail’s behaviour

[tonyedgecombe]

Yes, we should move to a proprietary service where the provider can extort us for the rest of our lives.

[alfiedotwtf]

Not sure where in my comment I said proprietary?

I just means we take RFC 821 and RFC822, then everything build on top of that flaming tire fire and send it into an orbit directly into the sun, and replace it with new open protocols that weren’t designed when the internet was a trusted network but with layers and layers of crust stacked on top in order to mitigate its shortfall