Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 09:59:42 -0400
Henning Follmann <hfollmann@itcfollmann.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 02:52:14PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 August 2016 14:05:36 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > "shocked that anyone would want to design or use an
> > > unreliable messaging system"
> >
> > Email is getting less and less reliable, so have you given up using
> > it?? :-(
> >
> > Lisi
> >
>
> However, why email is still reliable, because a proper setup provides
> you with a well defined error messages (in case it is not delivered).
>
If an email is designated as spam, it will be *silently* dropped. It
took mail admins a long time to realise that if a message was spam, the
last thing they should do with it is to 'return' it to the apparent
'sender' as part of a bounce message.
--
Joe
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