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0 pointscat1998y ago0 comments

> So unless they break delivery

Why break delivery when you can break sending?

just store the contents locally, and replace the body with some URL that the user has to click..

then, when non-gmail users have been desensitized to clicking links in emails 'because gmail', and get viruses constantly, sell them gmail as a way to have email without risk of viruses.

win win!

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e12e8y ago

Not sending the content is breaking delivery (of email). I mean, sure, replace the headers and mail body with a link to your gopher site or something. But at that point, you're not really delivering email anymore.

johnchristopher8y ago

Isn't that how protonmail works for non protonmail users ?

e12e8y ago

Yeah, and it's not really email either. Facebook started doing something similar for its "email notifications" a good while back. At one point, they sent the comment body in the email notification alerting you to a new comment - so you didn't have to use the (Web) app just to read a couple of lines of text. So they used to have email integration. These days they've settled for email annoyance.

command8y ago

Only if the PM sender “encrypts” the message with a password.

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e12e8y ago

johnchristopher8y ago

Isn't that how protonmail works for non protonmail users ?

e12e8y ago

command8y ago

Only if the PM sender “encrypts” the message with a password.

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