Provocative thesis: email is an example of the failure of federation.

The API is frozen because of the gigantic size of the deployment. The API is inadequate. Spam has destroyed email as a result. We cannot fix it, because getting the API right early didn't happen.

@ceejbot Bit of a stretch to call email 'destroyed'
@sigg Have you seen my inbox.
@ceejbot yeh i'm sure there's some important emails in there somewhere