Did anyone try to think before start complaining about "clueless politician"?
1. End-to-end encryption. As far as I can see the system does not provides one and does not attempt to do so. And this is right. End-to-end encryption is between me and my recipient and nobody else has anything to do with it. All middle message relay agents can do whatever they want with my encrypted message, as long as they will deliver it finally to the recipient intact. I don't care. People where using end-to-end encryption on mail message for thousandths of years over much less sophisticated transfer agents with great success.
2. Cost per message. First of all I never see a statement that Germany established "e-mail tax" so all messages _must_ cost something. It _may_ cost something. I do not know any law that prohibits Google, Yahoo and Microsoft from collecting money for emails that they transfer. In fact I'm paying right now to Google and Yahoo for e-mail services and considering number of e-mails I've sent per month the cost is much grater 5c/message. Did you guys have a clue that to relay your messages cost money? Service providers have to pay for computers, electricity, network bandwidth, heating/cooling, physical security, customers support etc. All this cost them money. Why they cannot collect fair price for the services that they provide? I'd prefer to pay fair price for the service that I need/value rather than use it for free and watch all this advertising on the sides of the screen.
I like the idea to establish network of trusted MTA - it will be positive thing. It will not solve all problems, but at least it will help with some.
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Did anyone try to think before start complaining about "clueless politician"?
1. End-to-end encryption. As far as I can see the system does not provides one and does not attempt to do so. And this is right. End-to-end encryption is between me and my recipient and nobody else has anything to do with it. All middle message relay agents can do whatever they want with my encrypted message, as long as they will deliver it finally to the recipient intact. I don't care. People where using end-to-end encryption on mail message for thousandths of years over much less sophisticated transfer agents with great success.
2. Cost per message. First of all I never see a statement that Germany established "e-mail tax" so all messages _must_ cost something. It _may_ cost something. I do not know any law that prohibits Google, Yahoo and Microsoft from collecting money for emails that they transfer. In fact I'm paying right now to Google and Yahoo for e-mail services and considering number of e-mails I've sent per month the cost is much grater 5c/message. Did you guys have a clue that to relay your messages cost money? Service providers have to pay for computers, electricity, network bandwidth, heating/cooling, physical security, customers support etc. All this cost them money. Why they cannot collect fair price for the services that they provide? I'd prefer to pay fair price for the service that I need/value rather than use it for free and watch all this advertising on the sides of the screen.
I like the idea to establish network of trusted MTA - it will be positive thing. It will not solve all problems, but at least it will help with some.