Re: mailing list vs "the futur"

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

On 8/29/18 11:29 AM, John Hasler wrote:

> Michael Stone wrote:
> > FWIW, I think SMTP (and IMAP) is on its way out as well. I expect
> > that in 20 years HTTP will still be going strong [...]
> tomás writes:
> > Rather some Google/Amazon/Facebook/Microsoft backed abominable
> > mutation of that. One that (in subtle ways) gives a competitive
> > advantage to centralized services.
> I think that SMTP will still be going strong but "consumers" will all
> use Webmail and all but the largest organizations will either use
> Webmail as well or contract for email service.  You'll be free to run
> your own server (but not from home: ISPs will block it) but no one will
> talk to you.
You miss the point.  SMTP is for transit between servers.  Maybe 
"consumers" prefer gmail, or yahoo, or some form of webmail - but we're 
never going to see a world where all mail goes through gmail - certainly 
not all business mail.

Chances are, that most mail - at least business mail - will originate in 
Outlook, go through an Exchange server, and from there, travel over SMTP.

Miles Fidelman



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