On 27 March 2010 16:40, Henry Litwhiler <[email protected]> wrote: > We don't want users buying web hosting to host their GNU Social installs. If > we do that, it becomes (effectively) a service, that they have to pay for to > use. That simply should not have to happen.
SMTP is exactly this sort of protocol. Some users buy email hosting; others use dynamic DNS to host their installs at home, while others have servers that they use to host their email servers. I don't see a problem with this approach. It means that users that want to host their own can, while those who don't want to host their own don't have to. b.
