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"SMTP has outlived its usefulness" (was: Forwarding services)

"SMTP has outlived its usefulness" (was: Forwarding services)

Posted Jan 16, 2026 12:20 UTC (Fri) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: "SMTP has outlived its usefulness" (was: Forwarding services) by Wol
Parent article: A note for MXroute users

> And what happens if where you want to go is not federated with facebook?

Or worse yet, Facebook decides to arbitrarily yank the credentials you've been using for the past two decades, locking you out of communicating with pretty much everyone and everything?

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"SMTP has outlived its usefulness" (was: Forwarding services)

Posted Jan 16, 2026 12:28 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Well… that's the reason to create such a system, isn't it? When you can “cancel” anyone with the flick of the finger… it's much easier to control dissent.

I would say that such danger is not the reason for such a system to not happen, but more of a reason for such system to be enforced.


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