Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 30 August 2016 16:34:25 Dan Purgert wrote:
> 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
>
> Email (according to the RFCs) wasn't ever intended to be /reliable/ in
> the first place.  It just happens to work that way most of the time.

:-)  It is more reliable and quicker than snail-mail.  But it isn't reliable!!  
And is getting less so.

Lisi