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The Time Has Come to Ditch Email?
Krishna Dagli writes to mention an article at The Register claiming that it's time we stop using email to communicate. From the article: "The problem is, email is now integral to the lives of perhaps a billion people, businesses, and critical applications around the world. It's a victim of its own success. It's a giant ship on a dangerous collision course. All sorts of brilliant, talented people today put far more work into fixing SMTP in various ways (with anti-virus, anti-phishing technologies, anti-spam, anti-spoofing cumbersome encryption technologies, and much more) than could have ever been foreseen in 1981. But it's all for naught."
"I don't think that a W3C-like standards body would take more than 5 years to craft a usable standard, and by the time it hit 1.0 there would already be a lot of early implementations."
And you can be sure Microsoft wouldn't be one of them, or, if they did, they'd do it all wrong. And whatever they came up with would be "standard" and they wouldn't change. You'd end up only being able to email people with the same version of the software since they'd somehow screw up and not make it backwards compatable (let alone FORWARDS).So, since everyone's using the same exact software (which everyone else would have to reverse engineer to be compatable), there would be loads of exploits and virii getting into the system. Oh, and they'd probably insert some kind of "feature" allowing for the execution of arbitrary code, which they'd refuse to fix, insisting that it's a feature.