@teajaygrey @Gargron Thanks for sharing and good points.
I used to work with JWZ at netscape. He's one of those negative positive people that makes big things happen while telling everyone "we're doomed"
I agree with your point that things have been adversarial on email. But even so, email still just works independent of the client or server or protocol and it probably always will... albeit with some whacky incompatibly for some extraneous features.