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0 pointsastrodust12y ago0 comments

Email is important because it's prevalent, simple, and based on documented open standards. It has an extremely high adoption rate, as close to 100% as you're ever going to get.

Do you really think grandma is going to install darknet software on her computer? Do you think an enterprise would embrace the software you're promoting as a realistic alternative to email?

Although it would be really hard to get people to agree to use PGP for email correspondence, this is a million times easier than trying to darknet the whole internet.

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kimlelly12y ago· 1 in thread

So you're suggesting we shouldn't be on the look-out for better solutions, because grandma won't use it right away?

That's not how change will come.

astrodustOP12y ago

Email has been around for fifty years in various forms, and it could be around for fifty more.

How it gets delivered, how it's secured, and how it's consumed will change, but the basic principle will stay the same.

It's extremely rare to see a new technology take hold, the web and HTTP, instant messenger, and BitTorrent are anomalies.

Stop trying to "disrupt" and "reboot" things and instead look to repair deficiencies in our existing technologies with backwards-compatible extensions instead of throwing them out.

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