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E-mail doesn't work too? Federation works, if some walled garden obsessive lock-in freaks (like Compuserve and AOL of old or today's analogies of Facebook and t
by shmerl 6y ago
E-mail doesn't work too? Federation works, if some walled garden obsessive lock-in freaks (like Compuserve and AOL of old or today's analogies of Facebook and the like) don't manage to mess things up.
- TylerE 6y agoEmail sucks. Spam is ramptant. Running a server is a nightmare. Standards are a tar pit. It "works" only for fairly loose definitions of "works".
- sliken 6y agoHave you tried to setup a mail server these days? There's plenty of nearly turn key solutions. Even from scratch on Debian, Fedora, or Ubuntu is pretty easy these days, a few apt-gets and a few additional tweaks and away you go. Using spam-assassin, clamav, and a few recommended tweaks (greylisting, HELO rules, blocking .ads, .party, and friends) and I'm down near zero spam.
- danielheath 6y agoHow's your delivery? Anything that runs the risk of my mail getting blackholed by a clients provider is a nonstarter (even if it's only a few days every few years).
- sliken 6y agoBeen fine, I have noticed others with terrible results. My best guess is that large email provides use domain age. So new domains have terrible problems with delivery. My domain is many years old.
- shmerl 6y agoStill, it works.
- pfraze 6y agoCentralized servers are just as hard to run, if not harder. You just don't experience those ops yourself without working there.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoEmail is totally feature frozen as well. There is infinite room to improve email but it will never happen because it requires the participation of too many parties. With centralized services there is always someone who has the final say and can force change.
- arp242 6y agoAs an example, we still haven't solved the wrapping problem that's been known for 40 years and has a fairly simple solution.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoIs this the line length limit you are talking about?
- arp242 6y agoWell, there isn't really any limit as such, but yes.
- _emacsomancer_ 6y agoSure. But it's still far better than any of the alternatives.