On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 15:18 -0500, Chris Adams via mailop wrote:
> Once upon a time, Jim Popovitch <jim...@domainmail.org> said:
> > I agree. Self hosted email is not hard, and it's just not super easy. :)
> > 
> > The much harder aspect of email is getting your peers, family, and
> > friends to adopt encryption.
> 
> Self-hosted email is hard (or really, impossible) for a high enough
> percentage of the Internet population that it is effectively 100%.  My
> father has been using computers since well before I was born, is still
> working on rockets today, but I have to explain email technicalities to
> him sometimes, things that we just take for granted.
> 
> It's similar in a way to how blogs were popular before a succession of
> social media megacorps took over; the average techy could pop up
> something on their ISP-provided web space back in the day, but the
> average individual online now could not possibly do that.  Even dealing
> with a hosted WordPress or the like is beyond most.  And even the
> density of capabale people is way to low to support friends-and-family.

Right, that's why I have said repeatedly that it is not super easy. 
It's not hard to do, it's just not super easy.

-Jim P.


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