Electronic mail is so confusing. Why do I need to choose a provider and how do I even decide? And once I have an address, how do I find my friends’ addresses and send them letters? Will I only be able to send letters to people using the same provider?
Reuben Binns is on #UCUstrike (@[email protected])

this email thing is neat and all but ordinary users just wont get it. Try explaining to them that its not a website but its actually a protocol, and you have to choose from one of millions of different email servers, and then there are different email clients on different platforms. It will never catch on!

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