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Email is also far less instantaneous and is locked into a single kind of infrastructure. It's useful for only one thing. I don't think it needs to be changed,
by striking 11y ago
Email is also far less instantaneous and is locked into a single kind of infrastructure. It's useful for only one thing.
I don't think it needs to be changed, really. It will stay this useful forever, probably.
- Johnny555 11y ago"locked into a single kind of infrastructure" What does that mean? A mail server can be a small perl script running on an embedded computer, or it can be a hundred front-end SMTP servers using a database as a back end datastore, there's no real infrastructure limit other than being able to make and receive connections on TCP port 25.
- striking 11y agoYou can't add in-message active content, though. (At least not without some serious hacks, like that thing LinkedIn did.)