Re:Yahoo Mail’s Plan to Fix Email: Make Computers Read It
by dredmorbius on Monday August 05, 2019 @10:56AM
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No, old does not necessisarily mean broken. But the assumptions, scale, and environment (particularly trustworthiness and safety) under which email was developed no longer match present reality.
I've hosted email for 40m+ users. It's nontrivial.
old != broken
> In practice, self-hosting email is problematic and presents risks
Not more, than self hosting WordPress.... And it's really not that problematic to self host it. I'm very tired of always hearing how hard it is when all one needs to do is adding a few dns records for spf, dkim, dmarc and reverse dns, and it works.
> At the same time, the utility and practicality of email is rapidly declining.
Not as infrastructure, no. In personal communication, yes.
You are correct on some points, especially the power concentration. On other points we're over complicating email. We need to accept that it'll never be as "private" as some enthusiasts would like it to be, but it's a more than adequate for reliably exchanging information.