Re:Email will last forever
by XorNot on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @01:58PM
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Many-to-Many isn't really bad for email. It depends on having servers which intelligently handle the duplication.
Which today, most servers do - they'll hardlink identical mails in mailboxes they control, and fan out those which need to be fanned out.
Email in that sort of medium is just visibly doing the grunt work you need to do for that type of thing over multiple distributed servers. Its no real accident that the Git distributed cloning model pretty closely mirrors this, since it was developed to replace emailing tarballs around for kernel developers.
Which today, most servers do - they'll hardlink identical mails in mailboxes they control, and fan out those which need to be fanned out.
Email in that sort of medium is just visibly doing the grunt work you need to do for that type of thing over multiple distributed servers. Its no real accident that the Git distributed cloning model pretty closely mirrors this, since it was developed to replace emailing tarballs around for kernel developers.