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by djjaxe 4601 days ago
well this could be fixed by using something like bittorrent sync to allow you to keep your "inbox" wherever you want all you need is the code... and storage space... and well at least 1 of your own computers that already has the inbox to be online at the same time. this also uses a separate dht table to sync and as long as your inbox is only in the megabyte it wouldn't be that hard to read your email from your friends computer or any other computer... but i do agree I would want to limit the ability to spam the network as this would load down a lot of the peers with excess mail that they actually wouldn't need... maybe somehow limit how many messages each node can send out... as this system would be like torrents but you would need a private key to open... you could send mail to multiple people they download the one message and decrypt it you wouldn't really need multiple message sent so if a node is sending many the rest of the network could identify that and ignore that node...