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Re:Why kernel development still uses email by stirner on Sunday October 02, 2016 @03:55PM (#12623933)
Email is tremendously complex, uses multiple protocols to accomplish different tasks (or even the same task), and is fundamentally vulnerable to spam and can only be patched with further complex hacks like SPF. Almost everyone now uses HTML email, an ill-defined and insecure idea, adding to the complexity of implementations.

If you think that email is a good system, trying setting up postfix, dovecot, sendmail, and whatever other hacks are required to make email usable.

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Re:Why kernel development still uses email by aisofteng on Sunday October 02, 2016 @07:13PM (#12624764)
My company provides my email access. As all companies do.
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Re:Why kernel development still uses email by stirner on Monday October 03, 2016 @05:45AM (#12626218)
The complexity of email isn't a problem for the average end user who uses someone else's mail server (like me). It's a problem because anyone who wants to interface with email directly takes on the burden of the complexity, meaning fewer and lower-quality implementations of the protocol(s) and less innovation overall.
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