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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by minitech on Saturday June 23, 2018 @05:41AM (#17380400)
> The basis of old internet protocols are simple, open and powerful

> Email, IRC, HTML, FTP

These protocols are anything but simple. “Be liberal in what you accept” was a huge mistake we’re still paying for. E-mail effectively can’t be made private. There’s lots of room for improvement in open protocols. (Start by not making them text-based, please.)

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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by walshemj on Saturday June 23, 2018 @02:28PM (#17382624)
Text has a lot of advantages - I know as I had to debug OSI binary protocols - You had to dump it out to a textual representation.

unless you had spent years and could read the protocol in its binary form

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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by minitech on Saturday June 23, 2018 @08:51PM (#17384346)
That’s

- one advantage, not “a lot”

- very slight, because the tool to convert to and from text gets made

- vastly outweighed by the disadvantages

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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by walshemj on Sunday June 24, 2018 @07:16PM (#17388895)
Ever had to debug an osi stack using a printed out x.409 decode ?
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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by u801e on Saturday June 23, 2018 @01:58PM (#17382444)
> E-mail effectively can’t be made private.

It definitely can be both in transit and when stored.

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Re:IRC.com Bought by London Trust Media, Pledges an IRC Revival by minitech on Saturday June 23, 2018 @08:49PM (#17384337)
If you run your own mail server and everyone who sends you mail makes a direct encrypted connection to it, sure. That’s not a solution for most people.
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