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The problem is just a presentation one.

Email is thought of as grandpas business tool.

Look at Spike for IOS.

Messengers are just whitelisted users. Email providers or clients simply provide a shit interface for managing that list.

To me it’s like that story about NASA spending millions on a zero gravity pen when Russian astronauts just used pencil.

Someone was looking to impress people with their spam filtering code and never thought “maybe I can just drop all by default and only allow who I want?”

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NASA didn’t spend a single dime developing the Fisher space pen. It was developed by the Fisher company at their own expense, in the hopes that it could be profitable. Yay, capitalism. Lead pencil tips frequently break during use. Carbon pencil lead is electrically conductive. You really do not want random pieces of electrically conductive debris floating around in your spacecraft.

I’m still waiting for my TSO’d pencil to arrive. http://www.rstengineering.com/rst/articles/tsodpencil.pdf

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Yeah who cares though? I thought the story was apocryphal altogether.

I was using it for the concept not the specifics.