A realization of why email is critical infrastructure for the Internet

Post by nunez » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 4:28 AM UTC

layer8 wrote: post #151

nunez wrote: post #132

I don’t think email is as decentralized and federated as it used to be. In theory, email is a service that is simple enough for anyone to run themselves. Most Linux distros come with sendmail, so theoretically it should be as easy as reading the manual and exposing some ports. Spam is performed server side both at the origin and at the destination to mitigate bad actors, and because email is simple, there should be n…

The thing is, you can have your email address(es) under your own domain, and change mail hosting providers while keeping your email address(es). It's true that too few people are doing that. Apart from that, email is not going anywhere (not going away) anytime soon as the standard medium for B2B communication. And in B2C communication as well, an email address is the one baseline you can count on everyone having. I d…

Post by b3morales » Fri, Dec 31, 2021, 5:48 PM UTC

hiptobecubic wrote: post #250

b3morales wrote: post #185

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That's not a very informative comparison. LeBron James is a outlier's outlier in a sector that already has exceptional pay. Senators' salaries would more usefully be compared to the (upper) middle-class white-collar workforce that they would most likely occupy if they weren't in office.

I don't see how you can compare being a senator to being a middle manager at some bank. The problem is that the banker faces huge consequences if they do something stupid to earn a little money by abusing their position and the upside isn't even that big. By comparison, senators have the opportunity to earn literally millions by doing things that aren't even technically illegal, like being given a wink-and-nod promis…

Post by lolsal » Mon, Jan 03, 2022, 3:03 PM UTC

jackson1442 wrote: post #245

lolsal wrote: post #241

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I know that you do not need an email for some of the things you mentioned. I doubt you need an email for the rest. I don't think the change we need to make here is "everyone should require email for everything, and therefore we need government subsidized emails for everyone." If anything, the change should be "email is not required", because it's not. Furthermore, these are not rights but privileges: > buying virtual…

Would you like to tell me more about this society where having a roof over your head is not a right, but a privilege? More of a privilege than applying for a job?