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Re:It’s Time to Encrypt the Entire Internet by dmm on Thursday April 17, 2014 @11:01AM (#7603980)
Email was created for a time when connections were expected to be unreliable. Email servers respond to a failure to connect by retrying at increasing intervals for several days.
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Re:It’s Time to Encrypt the Entire Internet by jeffreyrogers on Monday April 21, 2014 @09:58AM (#7621049)
Ah, that makes sense. I wasn't aware that's how it worked.
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