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I hope not. Email is one of the few remaining, totally decentralized, original services which anyone can set up a server and run with. I've never had any issue with it across 25 years, honestly.

It just 'fits' with the web. name@address.tld - it's fantastic.

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Sort of agree. Running own mail servers myself. But it wasn't without hassle. Imagine non-technical family members setting up a VPS, postfix+dovecot+spam/av solution and then getting that to work securely on their mobile devices. Not to mention the spam and surveillance issues.

There is room for improvement, no?

Yes, of course. The core tenants though, shouldn't be evicted, ever.

I honestly cried when alt.* on usenet was lost. We lost so much.

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