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Why Is It So Expensive to Send an Email?
A technical write-up examines the hidden costs behind sending email, a task that seems free but carries significant infrastructure, deliverability and spam-prevention burdens. The piece argues that email's trust systems, such as reputation scoring and IP management, make even simple messages expensive to deliver reliably at scale. Readers are debating whether email's design reflects necessary anti-abuse measures or an aging system overdue for reinvention.
Why now: Developers are surprised that a supposedly trivial operation carries such heavy technical and economic costs.
emailEvan CzaplickiHacker News
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