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That template essentially shot down any discussion of fixing email in the open source space, and so companies like Slack, Google and MSFT were able to create wa
by tomjen3 5y ago
That template essentially shot down any discussion of fixing email in the open source space, and so companies like Slack, Google and MSFT were able to create walled gardens that can only be interacted with by their systems or by email senders they consider secure enough.
If, instead of creating that template, somebody had made Thunderbird send PoW headers and priotize those that had it, maybe we would have been in a freer world.
- teddyh 5y agoAnd yet, nobody who could have made that change in Thunderbird thought it would be a good idea to do that. This is how ideas are evaluated and either adopted or rejected.
- pixl97 5y agoYea, there's about 0% chance that PoW would fix anything. Much like how bitcoin miners run in javascripts these days, victims would have born the brunt of the computing expense.