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Email is not a reliable way of communication anymore, because of the spammers. I have given up on checking my spam folder, which means there is a probability of
by Tichy 15y ago
Email is not a reliable way of communication anymore, because of the spammers. I have given up on checking my spam folder, which means there is a probability of ham getting lost.
- laughinghan 15y agoSpam is just one of many things that slightly reduces the reliability of email, and Bayesian filtering has reduced it to a minor nuisance. The implication that email was ever completely reliable is false, there has always been a risk of mail servers going down, for example, but it was also reduced to a minor nuisance by modern redundancy techniques (for example). The implication that there even exists an actually reliable way of communication I don't think is true either, that's why email is still so widely used.
- jasonjei 15y agoI think it's a trade off of having a decentralized system vs. a centralized system. Just imagine if we could only use Gmail or Facebook for email--now that would be just plain scary.