Is e-mail failing us?

Posted by tadelste on Sep 26, 2005 8:46 AM EDT
Onlamp; By François Joseph de Kermadec 		Mail this story
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There is a common understanding among Internet users that e-mail is one of the most trusted technologies around. Want to quit your job? E-mail your boss! Declare your flame to your boyfriend? Fire up Pine! Get information on applications for the fall semester at NYU? Hover to Mail.app! After all, it all seems so easy: type a few words, enter a generally easy to understand address and your missive is on its merry way, bouncing from MX record to MX record until it arrives in the hand of its giddy recipient. This however fails to take into account one of this century's most painful truths: e-mail, after so many years of being relied on, still doesn't work reliably — and I'm not talking about SPAM here but rather about the very structure of the network.

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Of course it is peragrin 0 932 Sep 26, 2005 12:00 PM

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