der Mouse wrote:
I as a node admin did what I could to prevent our system from being
part of the precipitate, and did have an expectation that others would
do likewise - but I also knew enough about ways we could silently lose
mail that I accepted unreliability as just a fact of email life.
If you're talking about hardware faults, unreliability is just a fact
of life, tout court. At least, SMTP specifications allowed to tell
whose fault it was. It is different when we talk about specifications
that are unreliable by design. SMTP specifications are the same, in a
relative way, but the people who use them are not.
In exchange for what are we giving up reliability now?
Usability.
Why would email be less usable if it implied some sort of
responsibility on the sender's side?
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