[doubled112]

Do you mean average person around here? Or average person in general?

Too many unknowns and moving parts.

Have you ever worked with the general public and computers?

The average person was wondering why their wireless router needed cables. They did not update their computers for the entire time they owned them. Somebody else ignores big red text saying this will delete everything and hits next anyway, then wonders where their photo collection has gone.

I cannot believe the average person would be capable of registering a domain and configuring their DNS to point at this simple mail server they’re running.

If somebody else is taking care of all of these parts, I am not sure they’re really hosting it themselves.

Maybe we need a new protocol and we can replace all of this? How do we get everybody on board?

[rolandog]

Especially with all the codified footguns (or the "Tyranny of the Default" — as Steve Gibson would put it) where a lot of critical apps ship with very insecure defaults, and even a seasoned Dev that's an expert on one domain doesn't have time to muddle through the whole of man pages + mail archives + stack overflow threads for every option.