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Email performance matters only when you spend a lot of time managing a fair amount of it. For merely top posting a "reply-all" + 1 or 2 people and then hit "delete" or "archive" performance is not that critical. Slowly searching all that mess locally used to be painful but that has been solved by the cloud; Exchange moved there too.

Outside open source, email has more or less become a lossy stream of throw away notifications, think RSS. Throw-away because pure notifications: the primary copy of the information is centralized and hyperlinked in some database somewhere, not just massively duplicated across all recipients. Hey, even Linus has been saying "please re-send this because I missed it", hasn't he?

The way to achieve "email performance" in this new and dominant model is with "unsubscribe" buttons with many different granularities. I miss the beauty and clarity of bottom posting too; that collateral damage wasn't necessary. On the other hand I really enjoy the fine grained "unsubscribe" model, I think it is a major progress that recipients and not senders finally have some control over what spa... email comes to their inbox. I think Knuth said something about that a century ago...

BTW Twitter and others seem to be repeating the same lack of control mistake: in the age of information overload and "available brain time", why would you let anyone including various trolls get anywhere close to your eyes and brain? Ah yes: "if it's free, you're the product". Of course.

PS: could you elaborate about these VPN regulations?