The irony from the Knotzi drama is that by overreacting to "ivory tower elitism" they will actually create ivory tower elitism by signaling to developers that they should stop wasting time trying to build bridges with puritanical fools.
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SMTP is such a shitty protocol with layers of opaqueness on top due to centralization and ossification. It's amazing that so many people are able to use it successfully.