RE: the e-mail of the future is the e-mail oft the past, was Enough port 26 talk...

["Keith Medcalf" <kmedcalf () dessus com>]

On Tuesday, 15 January, 2019 12:10, James Downs <egon () egon cc> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 06:46:07PM +0100, Tei wrote:

> > Is very hard to replace a open protocol,  wrapping may work if the
> > protocol is mostly abandoned (IRC) but thats not the case for
> > email.

> IRC is far from abandonded. There are lots of very active networks,
> 2 of which I use continously.
>
> But, it's been a week of non-NANOG talk, so....

Plus there is IRC by web pages -- you know where all the Twit's hang out .. Twittering amongst themselves.

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