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Stephen Downes

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We've all thought about replacing email. Some of us (well, me) have actually drawn up plans and even laid out some code. But email is hard to replace, for some very good reasons, as Adam C. Engst argues. It's based on open standards. It serves the lowest common denominator. And the new systems don't solve the main problem inherent in the old one: spam.

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