A farewell to email

Posted Oct 17, 2018 16:51 UTC (Wed) by gfernandes (subscriber, #119910)
In reply to: A farewell to email by edgewood
Parent article: A farewell to email

Really? Point to point? Email?

Does:
1. Every correspondent run their own email server?
2. Is every email guaranteed to never go via any intermediary?

A farewell to email

Posted Oct 17, 2018 17:04 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link] (2 responses)

You are discussing an independent topic.

A farewell to email

Posted Oct 17, 2018 17:08 UTC (Wed) by gfernandes (subscriber, #119910) [Link] (1 responses)

How is my point independent of the OP's assertion:

"And then there is correspondence that is genuinely personal that I really only want copies of for the two of us."

A farewell to email

Posted Oct 19, 2018 3:14 UTC (Fri) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

You're simply confusing private and secure (or pretending to be for some unclear reason)

A farewell to email

Posted Oct 17, 2018 17:23 UTC (Wed) by mtaht (subscriber, #11087) [Link]

I've been meaning to try signal for some time, btw. I would like it if it had an interface to emacs.

I don't use phones much (having poor eyesight and hearing is why I like videoconferencing - reading lips and email are how I cope). I think I've taken 3 phone calls in the last year, all of which went badly. Sometimes I think it's not just me, but how bad modern telephony is...

Going back to a "moral" and technological stance I'd had since the 80s. I'd wanted the world to run on static ip addresses, that you owned. I wanted email and other essential services to come directly into your home, where classic legal protections existed. I didn't want third parties to store my mail, chat, data, or web sites, I wanted it *here* on the premises. If I was down, the other sender would buffer it until it could be sent.

If my IP address got blocked for spamming, I'd get to know about it, and have technical and legal recourse. There'd be a local email repairman I could call to fix my server, just like I call a plumber.

If someone(s) tried to DOS my connection, I'd have recourse.

The dissolution of direct responsibility for your own internet connectivity is part of the overarching problem we have on the internet today.

All that said, that's not the world that happened.

So somehow retargetting my stance is in the cards, or fighting back. I just scanned through several thousand email list messages in emacs, read two, hit c to "catch up", and I'm done that part of my workflow for the day.