Re: where do I sign up?

On 2006-01-25 20:37:44 +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 11:42:56PM +1100, The Famous Brett Watson wrote:
> > Personally, I am working on a mail system (as part of a PhD thesis)
> > which bears important similarities to Dan Bernstein's IM2000 proposal,
> > but looks nothing like the IM2000 implementations that have been
> > discussed here. I'm hoping to release something workable as free
> > software when I'm done (within one year).
> 
> Well .. good luck.  I'm interested, for one.  IMHO, the most important
> thing about a new mail system is backward compatibility.  Any proposal
> needs to interoperate with SMTP very, very well otherwise I can't
> imagine that many people will adopt it.

Given the plethora of different IM and P2P protocols in use today, I am
not convinced any more that this is necessary. Write a nice client
program which lets people do the same thing as they can do via email
except with a few extra bells and whistles and without spam and they
won't care much.  They still have Outlook (or whatever) for
"old-fashioned email". Of course if you give them a client which can
also access their pop and imap accounts, that would be a bonus.

	hp

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