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Roedy Green my_email_is_posted_on_my_website at munged.invalid
Tue Oct 18 04:47:15 EDT 2005 
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:59:47 GMT, Tim Tyler <tim at tt1lock.org>  wrote
or quoted :

>Essentially, IM can do pretty-much everything email can these days, but 
>the reverse is not true at all.

The problem with IM is the various IM schemes don't talk to each
other.  You need a client that knows all the IM protocols.  But that
seems to be happening with Jabber and Trillian.

You have too much reliance on a central server. You have to trust the
relaying company.  I think it is time that nearly all mail was
routinely and transparently end to end encrypted, with the exception
of long enclosures that are explicitly marked not confidential.

You still have spam to a lesser extent and strangers just wanting to
talk.
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