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Everyone seems to agree that email is broken (and yet incredibly useful and almost universal in reach). So moving on from there, how do we fix it? Who is curre
by grey-area 11y ago
Everyone seems to agree that email is broken (and yet incredibly useful and almost universal in reach).
So moving on from there, how do we fix it? Who is currently working on fixing it? What would a new protocol look like?
- bachmeier 11y agoChat services such as Slack, and social media like Twitter, are excellent ways to communicate. It's pretty simple. If you implement a request system so that both parties have to agree to let the other send messages, all of the problems are solved. There's no good reason that we need a system that allows anyone to send an arbitrary number of messages to anyone else.
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- bachmeier 11y ago> but there is a compelling reason -- this ability to send junk to anyone has allowed some people to make money consistently for decades How is that a compelling reason? Why would I want to open myself up to spam so that others can make money? There is a compelling reason that we use the current email system. We do it because we have to. Nonetheless, communication over the internet without spam is a solved problem, whether or not we choose to take advantage of the solutions.
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- pmlnr 11y agoThis is the big question I'd like to hear an answer for as well.
- JdeBP 11y agoYou only need read the discussion that was already here prior to your comments. (-: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10406040 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10406040 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10405864 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10405864