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"1. Email has to be replaced with a new protocol. This new protocol should be a todo list protocol, not a messaging protocol."

We will always need a distributed, general messaging protocol. That's what email is. If you create a "todo list protocol", it wont replace email. It will either run on top of email, or along side it, but it wont replace it.




Your comment nails the point. Email is to internet communication, as text files is to storing file data. It's the most basic form that's usable.

Sure, you could bolt on abstractions over it like doc/rtf etc. but at the most fundamental level you need some form of cross compatibility.




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