Ask HN: Why is spam email still a thing?

Re:Ask HN: Why is spam email still a thing? by teddyh on Monday January 17, 2022 @04:44PM (#29972032)

When has ever a “tech industry’s ‘reenvisioning’ of a free/cheap older, but universal, standard” resulted in “an open and free standard” and not “the usual bullshit vendor lock in”?

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Re:Ask HN: Why is spam email still a thing? by netizen-936824 on Monday January 17, 2022 @08:06PM (#29973619)

Never that I can think of, which is why I stated my hope that it wouldn't be like that. But maybe that just means we can't necessarily depend on a profit motivated corporation to do the 'reenvisioning'

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Re:Ask HN: Why is spam email still a thing? by teddyh on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:13AM (#29977165)

Bingo. See also the rumored “definition of insanity”; i.e. doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result.

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