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What doesn't work great about email? easy to use, easy to set up, easy to modify, easy to switch which software handles your email both server-side and client-s

• s73v3r_ 9y ago
  Has a huge spam problem...
  • cyphar 9y ago
    But people posting tonnes of GIFs, emojis, and tagging @all on #general isn't spam? I don't disagree that email has a spam problem (though spam filters have gotten quite good in the past 20-30 years), just that spam isn't an email problem.
    • NikolaeVarius 9y ago
      You can easily choose to be not be a part of that. You do not have that luxury on email.
      • CaptSpify 9y ago
        You know you can filter email based on the content, right?
    • ascorbic 9y ago
      It's trivial to ban someone from Slack. The problem with email is how there's no authentication for incoming mail, and it's trivial to spoof the sending address so you can't block them. Sure spam is a problem on most platforms, but unauthenticated ones have it orders of magnitude worse than authenticated ones.
      • CaptSpify 9y ago
        > The problem with email is how there's no authentication for incoming mail TYL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DomainKeys_Identified_Mail and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy
  • Spivak 9y ago
    That's mostly a client problem than a protocol problem. Any mail client with a workflow for whitelisting contacts would stop spam immediately.
  • CaptSpify 9y ago
    Every submission system has a spam problem. How is email any different? I'd actually argue that email is one of the better systems, as I can manage and control my whitelist/blacklist myself. It makes things much more functional that way.