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As best I can tell there's no way for individuals to send amp emails. In order for gmail to accept an amp email it's sender must first register [1]. Registratio

As best I can tell there's no way for individuals to send amp emails. In order for gmail to accept an amp email it's sender must first register [1]. Registration comes with a couple requirements, one of which is a "Consistent history of sending a high volume of mail from your domain (order of hundred emails a day minimum to Gmail) for a few weeks at least." This is so contrary to how anything else on the web works that I feel I must have missed something. Their "standard" is not available to individual developers. Only those who are already sending lots of mail may play. This is far worse than how web sites have slowly become more opaque so that it's now harder to learn how to develop them. It's simply not possible to play around with this new medium. The open web is no more. [1]: https://developers.google.com/gmail/ampemail/register https://developers.google.com/gmail/ampemail/register

JohnFen 8y ago
> As best I can tell there's no way for individuals to send amp emails. If this is true, then I celebrate it! It means that I can have my mailserver simply discard all AMP emails and be confident that I'm not missing anything aside from spam.
JohnFen 8y ago
> As best I can tell there's no way for individuals to send amp emails I researched this a bit. Here's the scoop: right now, GMail is trialling AMP emails and are limiting that trial to entities that send out lots of emails. Post-trial, the intention is to allow anyone to send AMP emails. However, other major email services that have hopped onto this bandwagon are not limiting the use of AMP emails this way. So it's not true that there's no way for individuals to send AMP emails. It's true for GMail specifically, but even there, that's a temporary limitation.
- brian_cloutier 8y ago
  nice, thanks for doing this research! Do you have anything I could read which says they'll open this up?
  - JohnFen 8y ago
    Yes. The limitation to the use by major email senders is during the developer preview. According to this, Google plans to end the preview and release to the general public this fall: https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/bringing-power-amp-gmail/ https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/bringing-power-amp-...

JohnFen 8y ago

> As best I can tell there's no way for individuals to send amp emails. If this is true, then I celebrate it! It means that I can have my mailserver simply discard all AMP emails and be confident that I'm not missing anything aside from spam.

JohnFen 8y ago

> As best I can tell there's no way for individuals to send amp emails I researched this a bit. Here's the scoop: right now, GMail is trialling AMP emails and are limiting that trial to entities that send out lots of emails. Post-trial, the intention is to allow anyone to send AMP emails. However, other major email services that have hopped onto this bandwagon are not limiting the use of AMP emails this way. So it's not true that there's no way for individuals to send AMP emails. It's true for GMail specifically, but even there, that's a temporary limitation.

brian_cloutier 8y ago
nice, thanks for doing this research! Do you have anything I could read which says they'll open this up?
- JohnFen 8y ago
  Yes. The limitation to the use by major email senders is during the developer preview. According to this, Google plans to end the preview and release to the general public this fall: https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/bringing-power-amp-gmail/ https://www.blog.google/products/g-suite/bringing-power-amp-...