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The modern angle on this rule is that "Every program eventually adds text chat, and they're all incompatible with each other."

Isn't mail just another form of text chat?

Somebody took your idea quite literally: https://www.coi-dev.org/

Yes. That makes it the more general form of the original law.

The incompatibility is the key feature that differentiates modern text chat from those inferior mail applications.