Mozilla Creates New Internet Mail and Communications Company

Mozilla has announced a new initiative to overhaul email and internet communications in general. The new company, MailCo, will be given $3 million in startup capital from Mozilla to start with the Thunderbird code and work from there. MailCo will be led by David Ascher of ActiveState fame and, according to him, will be a for-profit venture without the emphasis on profit.

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Re:Lost Cause

[dmsuperman]

Obviously neither has the person who modded the original poster insightful

If they can eliminate spam - more power to them

[presidenteloco]

This should be a top priority.

I would say you need a short-text-message introduction protocol
backed by a reputation network as the only way of starting a new
communication between unintroduced parties.

Introductions should have to include a category for the nature of
the communication, chosen from a small standard ontology.
This could serve to tag or bucket the intro short-messages for
systematic review separate from looking at my established
correspondents messages.

You need digital signature based sender identity confirmation.
Made as easy to use as current email for the sender and recipient.

That's about it.