Joe wrote: > On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:35:35 -0000 (UTC) > Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> wrote: > >> Joe wrote: >> > On Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:49:06 -0000 (UTC) >> > Dan Purgert <d...@djph.net> wrote: >> >> Isn't that what Facebook, et. al. already do? It's AOL all over >> >> again. >> > Not quite yet. I can still invent a completely new protocol, send >> > you the details, and we can exchange data over the Net using it. >> > One day, ISPs will pass nothing but http/s. >> > >> Hm, seems like that'd break quite a lot of things that're important to >> business -- SMTP, SFTP, FTP[*], AS2 ... > > Businesses are heavy users of Office 365, recent MS server
And yet they still need SMTP to send email to other businesses, be they on a different o365 cluster, or gmail for business or still a holdout on their own mailserver (not to mention businesses that run linux boxes and have said boxes mailing logs and whatnot to people). -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281