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On Sun, 25 Oct 2015 21:04:04 +0000
Martijn Grooten <martijn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Martijn,
>It did affect their own customers, who were often banned from posting to
>mailing lists. But people who post to mailing lists are a small minority
That was as a backlash (for want of a better word) rather than a direct
result. However, point taken.
>in the bigger scheme of things.
More than likely. Although, personally, it amounts to over 99% of all
email I receive.
>> I said email, and that's what I meant. Webmail <> email, at least,
>> not in this context.
>You keep saying that, but I really fail to see why you make that
>distinction.
In this instance, it's because with webmail, the hosting site has
knowledge of *every* keystroke and mouse click you make during the
writing and reading of messages. Whether they take action based on
those details is secondary. The only details they have about mails I
read/write here, using a locally hosted MUA, are those that pass through
their systems.
>> Ah, understood. A good idea. One which almost all governments will
>> detest.
>They might, but they won't be able to stop it, if only because their
>arguments for backdoors in network encryptions are a lot weaker, as you
It won't stop them trying. Their wisdom (paranoia, I suppose in
reality) shows that they really have no idea about how the internet
works.
>Of course. Replacing something that works so well won't be easy. I've
>become a big fan of DIME, which I wrote about earlier this year
>https://www.virusbtn.com/blog/2015/03_12a.xml
I'll try and find time to read it.
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