Re: quick email change

From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_iahu.ca)
Date: 08/25/03 

Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 11:09:43 GMT

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Lassi Hippeläinen wrote:
| Tom St Denis wrote:
| <...>
|
|>The problem is Yahoo email was designed by the same sort of morons who
|>designed [and subsquently NEVER CHANGED] SMTP. I mean at the very least
|>something like hashcash should have been added to smtp five years ago.
|
|
| That would create a separate e-mail universe that isn't backwards
| compatible with the current one. It would be rather lonely there.
| Remember - a few years ago M$ tried to create their own walled garden
| with the original MSN concept, but had to retreat back to the open
| Internet.

I get this reply alot and it's simply not true.

You could for instance, write your mail client to *prioritize* mail
based on the hashcash tag.

SMTP *already* supports additional X tags and such. So you make a new one

X-HASHCASH = ADEADFAD232....

Then the client can sort them [or what not] based on the existance [and
validity] of the tag.

So yes, it would be *TOTALLY* backwards compatible.

| <...> As for outlook users, well screw them, it's about time they grow
| up and
|
|>use another mailer anyways. :-)
|
|
| For most of us changing from Outlook to something else means finding an
| employer who doesn't use M$ware. Another lonely affair...

True dat. Just give your boss the sobig virus... That will change
his/her/its mind quickly.

Tom
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