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dsr_ on July 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: JMAP – an IMAP replacement

Then you probably would have liked Internet Mail 2000 (IM2000), a half-hearted djb proposal: https://cr.yp.to/im2000.html

(I say half-hearted because when djb is enthused, the first people hear of it is a complete first draft of a server and a client...)

fanf2 on July 10, 2017 [–]

IM2000 would have been great for spam! The spammer can just blast out little message availability notifications, containing links to their bulletproof hosting or compromised servers.

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