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> Email should be built around abundant storage, not a dependency on bandwidth. I'm sorry but this doesn't make sense to me. To cache all images you've ever re
by thebokehwokeh2 12y ago
> Email should be built around abundant storage, not a dependency on bandwidth.
I'm sorry but this doesn't make sense to me. To cache all images you've ever received is sort of antithetical to the whole 'decentralized' nature of email, and the internet in a nutshell. The 'inconvenience' of having to re-download far surpasses the need to store every single trivial little thing on your mail client's cache. A few seconds is worth way more to me than taking up tens of gigs of images on my HD that I will never see again.
- 7952 12y agoI disagree. A modern device is almost entirely composed of files downloaded from the internet. The binary for your web browser is just a local cache of an entity that exists in the cloud. You need a local cache because bandwidth and latency are too high to retrieve a new copy every single time you run the program unless you need an update. It seems a pity to not use storage to cache when it is available. Especially considering that to most people bandwidth is much more expensive than storage.
- pavel_lishin 12y agoBut your email is never decentralized. The email you've received stays on a central server, unless you delete it.