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

Posted Jan 16, 2026 14:44 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: "SMTP has outlived its usefulness" (was: Forwarding services) by dskoll
Parent article: A note for MXroute users

> Democracy may well be doomed in the United States, and for sure that will make life very difficult in other democracies, but it's not doomed everywhere.

Democracy is extremely wasteful. It may only exist when there are extreme amount of resources to waste. And even with recent abundances western democracies were quickly moving toward insolvency (which most others are not a democracies at all but a fig leaf that hides the real rules).

That means that pretty soon there would be a choice just between two options:

Democracy is abandoned and less wasteful institution would be installed in its place.
There would be an attempt to “save the democracy” which would exhaust the resources and society would collapse, Somalie-style (Afganistan-style, Lybia-style… the differences between these failed societies are vast, true, but “democracy” is not an option in either of these).

E-mail would be outlawed relatively quickly in countries with #1 choice and later in countries with #2 choice (when they would face a collapse of modern infrastructure and would have to trade their e-mail for the permission to join countries that would do #1 choice).

It's not that I to see the failure of democracy and abandonement of e-mail… I don't — but that doesn't matter: what couldn't continue… would stop.

> Recent elections in both Canada and The Netherlands saw voters rejecting the more right-wing and authoritarian parties in favor of middle-of-the-road traditional liberal-democratic parties.

They would go with #2 choice, then and would be robbed and partially occupied by countries that would pick #1 choice. This may lead to drastic differences to lives of average citizen, but that wouldn't save a democracy.