Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (2014)

Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by denton-scratch on Sunday October 23, 2022 @10:01AM (#33307077)

> ensure that mail gets delivered

Email is intrinsically an unreliable service, and always has been. It's a "best-effort" service. But at least email is honest about it up-front, and tries to address reliability in the RFCs.

Not that Google cares much about RFCs.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by YeBanKo on Sunday October 23, 2022 @02:20PM (#33308992)

That was in reference to regular mail. USPS was one of the first fed agencies and mail was one of the few original functionals of the central government. On top of USPS being one of the largest agencies, there is also legal protection against tempering with mail and usps has its own enforcement branch.

In case of email, it probably should simpler. Gov only serves as an address book, essentially. But does minimum of tech implementing it. Given how domain MX records work, does not seem possible. So i think email relay is the closest thing.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by denton-scratch on Sunday October 23, 2022 @02:31PM (#33309071)

OIC, sorry. It crossed my mind that's what you meant, but I said "Nah".

As far as USPS anti-tampering and enforcement goes: <hollow laugh>. The postmen robbed me silly, and there was no process to get it fixed.

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