On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 11:19 AM, paxcoder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paxcoder@gmail.com">paxcoder@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
P.S. Nobody replied yet on the possibility of alternative SMTP servers at friends'. Does this mean it can't be done?</blockquote><div><br>Of course it can, but every additional thing which has to be configured and understood by the owners of the Boxes makes them less useful to the average person. Making this happen automagically would be possible, but might actually be a terrible idea:<br>
<br>I personally think I might *prefer* that a complete stranger relayed my clear-text, unencrypted e-mail, than someone I know.<br><br>The people I know might be interested in spying on me or tampering with my e-mail - they might be sleeping with my wife or suspect I'm sleeping with theirs, or they might just be bored and looking for gossip. Complete strangers wouldn't care, and I probably wouldn't care much if they *did* take a peek.<br>
<br>Privacy can be weird that way.<br><br>Since e-mail is generally sent in the clear, relaying through friends might not be the sort of thing we could configure without carefully asking the user permission first and explaining why that might suck. And that makes it a big usability problem.<br>
</div></div><br>-- <br>Bjarni R. Einarsson<br><br><a href="http://beanstalks-project.net/">http://beanstalks-project.net/</a><br><a href="http://bre.klaki.net/">http://bre.klaki.net/</a><br>