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		josephg 46 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: True P2P Email on Top of Yggdrasil Network Knuth once said there’s two kinds of programming languages in the world: Languages everyone complains about, and languages nobody uses. I feel like there’s some corollary here…

svat 46 days ago | [–]

FWIW it was Bjarne Stroustrup (of C++) who said that, not Knuth.

ddtaylor 45 days ago | [–]

There are actually a lot of networks that people would assume get spammed to death, but they seem to work fine for me when I have used them.

Another example is BitMessage. It worked fine for me I never had random spam or anything.

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