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A discussion led me to be reminded of Dan Bernstein's proposal to create a better replacement for email, 18 years ago: https://cr.yp.to/im2000.html
@mala it sounds a little like a proposal for people who thought the problem with email was that there was too much reader privacy
@npd oh good critique!