A historical review of the multi-decade centralization and capture of the email protocol.

Interesting history and analysis of SMTP’s history. How can we prevent fedi and other open protocols from suffering the same fates?

  • ramble81@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    You can’t successfully use an email server on a bare metal machine in your own Datacenter

    Calling complete BS on that. I work in a medium size company and we do just that. Don’t know what he’s thinking.