While technically SMTP is still peer-peer and open; almost nobody uses it that way anymore. Email providers, like Google, have pretty much locked up all the email traffic and could exert considerable influence over it, including censorship.
>From: TrentonZero at 08/14/22 21:42:02 on wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net
>---------------
>I meant to say here "[Email is the only protocol] that is used at substantial scale."
>
>>From: TrentonZero at 08/14/22 21:34:41 on wss://nostr-pub.wellorder.net
>>---------------
>> Email is the only protocol that works kinda sorta a little like nostr, in that everything is decentralized and anybody can send to anybody.
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2022-08-15 12:51:40
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