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Drinking game for this thread. Start at the top of the comments: * every time someone implies spam filtering is a massive conspiracy against "the little guy",
by al2o3cr 11y ago
Drinking game for this thread. Start at the top of the comments:
* every time someone implies spam filtering is a massive conspiracy against "the little guy", drink
* every time someone suggests Bitcoin be used for something, drink
* every time a solution utterly fails to account for compromised end-user machines sending spam, drink
* every time a comment can be summed up as "assuming a PKI exists, this problem is trivially solved", CHUG THE REST OF THE BOTTLE
- dcposch 11y agoLOL That reminds me of an old classic: http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt There are a lot of obvious problems with email. * It's hard to run your own mail server, as described in the original post * Your address is tied to your provider * The standards involved in delivering mail (SMTP, POP, IMAP, etc) are complex, layered with hacks (SPF, STARTTLS, etc), hard to implement correctly, hard to secure. * The standards that govern the actual body of email (multipart MIME, a 90s-vintage subset of "HTML" and "CSS") are even worse But despite all those flaws, email is built on ubiquitous open standards running on a federated infrastructure. It's the best thing we have. Proprietary standards and centralized designs like AIM, ICQ, MSN, FB Messenger, Slack, and Twitter DMs come and go. Email is forever, and is more useful than all of those combined. The flipside is that it's very hard to "fix".