Re: [GNU/consensus] [SocialSwarm-D] Why support "Reset the Net" ? I don't get it

[Michael Rogers]

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On 07/05/14 10:51, carlo von lynX wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2014 at 10:39:33AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote:
>> Be careful about inferring 'will' from 'should'. ;-) I bet you a 
>> bitcoin we're both still using email this time next year.
> 
> I don't own that much bitmoney, but saying that e-mail will be 
> obsolete doesn't mean it takes less than a year to get rid of it.
> 
> I am saying we'll have something better soon, and then it depends 
> on how quickly people adopt it. This very mailing list may have 
> become very quiet next year... because we migrated to something
> better.

If email will still be around next year (and in ten years) then
improving the security of email isn't a wasted effort. The world is
full of obsolete systems that we maintain and patch until we can
finally get rid of them - Linux, representative democracy, TCP/IP,
nation states...

I *should* be using Qubes, but I still install security patches on my
Linux box, and I'm grateful that someone wrote those patches.

You spend a lot of energy criticising people for working to improve
obsolete systems - I guess you think they should be working on
replacement systems instead. But both are valuable. We need to improve
email *and* replace it, because even if the whole world starts using
Pond tomorrow, email (and HTTP, and all the other obsolete junk) will
be around for a long time.

Cheers,
Michael
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