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Federate messaging servers and make addresses domain specific. Works fine for email.

People lose their gmail accounts all the time for weird reasons. Maybe you are specifically talking about a world where everyone self hosts their own servers?

Gmail sucks, but not for any reason caused by email the protocol.

It is the fault of email, the protocol, yes.

If email was better designed, it would not allow these situations to happen. For example, if server operators didn't own your account, there would be no problem.

It is a protocol issue.

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