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This post kind of ignores just about everything about the way email works. Even if a TTL (time to live) header was added to the SMTP protocol, good luck gettin
by georgemcbay 14y ago
This post kind of ignores just about everything about the way email works. Even if a TTL (time to live) header was added to the SMTP protocol, good luck getting every existing mail handling agent out there to respect it (not to mention changing all the MX servers that passed a copy of the message to flush their cached versions of it, etc).
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- josh2600 14y agoThis is exactly how I felt reading this post. It just seems to imagine a world that's unlike the one we live in. Nevermind the fact that this gives someone else control over my inbox, which is sort of the point of hosting your own mail in the first place. I don't think this idea has a prayer of catching on, and in fact most of what the author is suggesting can be handled with server-side code.
- goronbjorn 14y ago> It just seems to imagine a world that's unlike the one we live in. Well… http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html http://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html Specifically: > Live in the future, then build what's missing.
- S4M 14y agoIn this case, I don't think a mailbox that can be controlled by the sender of an email is missing.
- Pinckney 14y agoI think you're confusing this with Outlook style message recall. The proposal here is about helping the receiver automatically cull out of date email. Of course you should be free to ignore any such flag. The point is that it would allow convenient filtering by some subset of recipients.