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on Sept 11, 2012
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Mail in 2012 from an admin's perspective
Because of SPAM, phishing, and malicious emails.
fierarul
on Sept 11, 2012
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Web browsers seem to handle malicious web pages just fine. Why is email so special?
tomwalsham
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Primarily because the Web is a Pull medium, whereas email is Push. To get my eyeballs on the web you first have to trick me into going to your location. To get my eyeballs on Email you just have to know my easy-to-guess personal address.
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