On 2023-05-27 13:43, John Levine via mailop wrote:
It appears that Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop <r...@rafa.eu.org> said:
With that way of thinking, you can get rid of email completely, and just
regularly check some website where people can write messages for you...
Dan Bernstein, who wrote qmail when he probably should have been thinking about
cryptography, had an idea for a reworked mail system along these lines:
https://cr.yp.to/im2000.html
You can tell from its name how long ago it was, and from the fact that you
never heard of it before how successful it was.
If I may respectfully encourage you to look at how you receive your
online banking statements, most likely they are delivered by a system
that is conceptually pretty much like DJB described it back then.
Substitute financial institution of the account holder for the ISP of
the receiver. No financial institution known to me uses SMTP to deliver
legally binding statements. Most of them send a notice, and these
notices are delivered via varied communication channels that include
push messages to phones/apps, Whatsapps and whatsnot, etc. The main
advantage for the financial institution is proof on the balance of
probability of the timestamp and statements that have been delivered to
the customer.
Best,
Yuv
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