[ih] Endliss misconceptions about Email reliability

Dave Crocker dhc at dcrocker.net
Mon Jan 15 18:02:00 PST 2024


On 1/15/2024 5:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> And is this really different from snail mail? There's the 
> International Postal Union, but living in NZ with frequent need to 
> communicate with the rest of the world, one thing the pandemic showed 
> me is that the international snail mail system is not viable under 
> stress (and it hasn't fully recovered even now).

The question was not about efficiency or efficacy, but control.

In the US, it is a federal offense to put anything through the mail slot 
by anyone other than the postal service.

Etc.


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