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Re:AMP for email is a terrible idea by tomc1985 on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @08:00PM (#16372472)
Free market as influenced by a commercial entity intentionally making most other options unusable.

Yeah, the free market is a good metric there...

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Re:AMP for email is a terrible idea by vkou on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @08:04PM (#16372487)
It can be argued that e-mail spam made most self-hosted e-mail unusable.
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Re:AMP for email is a terrible idea by khm on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @08:12PM (#16372541)
That argument is not compelling, given the number of people and organizations that self-host email.
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Re:AMP for email is a terrible idea by vkou on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @08:19PM (#16372581)
The problem is not that it's difficult to run an SMTP server - botnets run millions of them. The problem is that telling a legitimate one from one that sends spam is an arms race.
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