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Email and the associated protocols are a painful nightmare. Nobody in their right mind would build a platform based on a broken protocol.
by herbst 9y ago
Email and the associated protocols are a painful nightmare. Nobody in their right mind would build a platform based on a broken protocol.
- jarfil 9y agoAre they? An application leveraging email for its transport layer could easily use standard email libraries, and social networks are little more than mailing lists with a different interface.
- herbst 9y agoI am not aware of any 'standard email' libraries that actually work with the majority of edge cases. Whatever someone builds around email. It will be full of work arounds and 'temporary hacks'