[ih] email at scale

[paul vixie]

sorry for the delay in responding to this. greetings from coolangatta.

On 5/15/2012 11:24 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:
>
> On 5/14/2012 9:39 PM, paul vixie wrote:
>> in that case i'd
>> say, human to human messaging at scale remains an unsolved problem.
>
> wow.  some one or two billion regular users; massive numbers of
> independent administrations.  no central control. what remaining
> requirements for basic messaging are on the list?

my previously expressed list was:

> ... doing human messaging at scale in a way that
> secures the interests of the humans at the endpoints against unwanted
> traffic, undeserved rejection, eavesdropping, corruption of format or
> content, forgery or identity theft, or misdirection

since most people fight each of those dragons at least once a week and
some of us fight all of them every day, i call them 'basic' in the
context of your question.

paul

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