Re: Decentralized reliable instant messaging?
On Tue 30 Aug 2016 at 09:59:42 (-0400), Henning Follmann 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).
There are occasions when this is several days later, unfortunately.
Some of the retry intervals seem to have been set in the days when
people/institutions dialled up the internet on a daily schedule.
> The fact that a lot of mail ends up in places where they are never looked
> at is a social issue not a technical one.
The unreliability of email is also overreported by people
whose homework, years earlier, was eaten by their dog.
Cheers,
David.
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