SMTP and POP are hard to set up .. thus centralised Gmail etc .. nostr frees it ..
Also anti spam angle .. charge a sat per message .. access through any client ..
Discussion
Great points. ty.
Id love an email client with a zap threshold to filter all the horse shit and im sure im not the only one.
Would the sat "postage" go to the recipent or relay? I think it would also benefit from a bridge to legacy email with a mechanism to add the postage on inbound mail. Maybe LNURL in the header? Outbound messages could include return postage for real conversations that you want a reply to.
To the relay .. the value is in holding the information. Clients would earn through value added service ( better display + more devices ) . Recipient gets the benefit of using the tool .
Bridging to the existing clients is an intermediary steps .. existing providers ( Gmail , Microsoft) would be forced to adapt if they want to keep their clout .. I guess nostr developers should least worry about this piece for one - it is hard to develop for all the email clients ..and second it would add to the mess ..and third the benefits wouldn't contrast clearly ..