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You're absolutely right! Thank you.

I'll need to take extra care to focus on the main issue before extending it.

I just also want the extensibility to be a center focus, so that it can expand to be a synchronization protocol instead of only an email protocol.

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Can someone shoot this thing down: What if we think 'data synchronisation protocol' instead of 'e-mail protocol'? E-mail would then be an 'append only' application of this. The protocols focus would be to register a piece of data, keep track of the 'owner' and sharers and maintain synchronisation (preferably in a peer-to-peer way). I know this problem is big, but once it's done in a reliable way it would be simple to build a good e-mail-style communication on top of it.

UUCP was pretty much this. E-mail was, in fact, built on top of it; at least Sendmail still supports it.

I'm sure you can still find the reasons for the transition to SMTP somewhere. Try, again, Sendmail archives.

You mean... Google Wave?

Google Wave wasn't a data-synchronization protocol.

@karl_nerd: You understand what I mean instead of just what I'm saying! <3 hearts for you

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