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SMTP came a long time before NNTP.


I invoke Cunningham's Law.


I invoke Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment, and predict that Bitcoin will be replaced by artificially intelligent spam filtering software that can read mail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Principles

Zawinski's law of software envelopment (also known as Zawinski's law) comments on the phenomenon of software bloating with popular features:

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.




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