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They specified that it wasn't even if you could ignore the spam issue. I said that it was if you ignored the spam issue. The first post in this thread was "We've made sending electronic mail way too complicated under the guise of fighting spam."
I'm aware that it won't get past every spam filter, but it gets past both Gmail's and my own provider (a smaller, non-American one), which is good enough for my own use. My claim was that sending electronic mail is a solved problem, because it is.
Communication is much more than just broadcasting, just as email is about more than sending emails.
Agreed. I mean, I can _probably_ remember enough to be able to send mail using just telnet without even needing to look anything up. (And that mail, without any mime parts or urls - it very very likely to not fall into any of the spam filtering on my inbound email accounts...)
Iain-2:~ iain$ nc -c gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com 25
220 mx.google.com ESMTP k5si5682618pls.209 - gsmtp
EHLO elided.org
250-mx.google.com at your service, [202.171.181.100]
250-SIZE 157286400
250-8BITMIME
250-STARTTLS
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-CHUNKING
250 SMTPUTF8
MAIL FROM: <bigiain@elided.org>
250 2.1.0 OK k5si5682618pls.209 - gsmtp
RCPT TO: <bigiain@gmail.com>
250 2.1.5 OK k5si5682618pls.209 - gsmtp
DATA
354 Go ahead k5si5682618pls.209 - gsmtp
Subject: Test
From: bigiain@elided.org
To: bigiain@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2020 13:07:00 +1100
Foo baz nah
.
250 2.0.0 OK 1580436443 k5si5682618pls.209 - gsmtp
QUIT
221 2.0.0 closing connection k5si5682618pls.209 - gsmtp
Iain-2:~ iain$