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. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
