







The following is the 500-mile email story in the form it originally appeared, in a post to sage-members on Sun, 24 Nov 2002.:
Dear Manager, Again - Ewan’s Blog
Five months later, I have received essentially the exact same email.
Announcing the Centre for Cryptographic Trust Infrastructure
You’re getting this email because you subscribed to my blog posts at martin.kleppmann.com.

Super Mail Forward : an email that evolves as you forward it
Last year, Litmus held a community contest which theme was “Emails Worth Forwarding”. In order to participate, I created an email I called…

Email is the new black
Many have heard the refrain, “Email is dead.” But we’re here to tell you email is here to stay. Email gets things done. When it comes to better communication, email really is the new black.

Falsehoods programmers believe about email
In the spirit of falsehoods programmers believe about names and time, here’s some falsehoods about email which are all too common.

The Dreaded Weekly Status Email
I remember the first time I had to write one of these puppies. I had just been promoted to manager at Yahoo back in 2000, and was running a small team. I was told to “write a status email covering …

Case Study: Email Startups
Comprehensive analysis of email startup failures. Why most email companies fail, burn millions in VC funding, and shut down. Learn what actually works.

Phantom Obligation
Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.

Phantom Obligation
Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.
Slack didn’t kill email — and it might have made it stronger
Front’s Mathilde Collin on why email is making a comeback

An open letter to Stewart Butterfield: Why Slack will never replace email.
Hello Mr Butterfield,

Email Isn’t The Thing You’re Bad At
You and me, we’re bad at a lot of things. But email isn’t one of those things, no matter how much it seems like it.
The Emergent Self Loop
Nearly once a week I receive an email from a different stranger.

@dholms.at was (maybe) right A blog in which I start off talking about 3 problems in a trenchcoat, and end with proposing a new type of DID chrispardy.leaflet.pub/3mtjcs75b7c2x
@dholms.at was right
chrispardy.leaflet.pubChris Pardy
I've been giving this some more thought and I think I'm going to publish a follow up piece called @dholms.at was right. I think records moving between spaces with any integrity is effectively impossible. Blobs should keep using content hashes to dedup so a copy operation is free on the PDS