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This is such an obscure situation that doesn't even need to be solved with blockchain. Look at the article being posted. "Messaging network for safer communications", which now apparently turns to just a single situation where a lawyer needs to send a time sensitive email and needs to prove it was sent? Which again, doesn't actually even solve the problem. In this case, your blockchain ponzi scheme email can easily get caught by a spam filter. You've now turned the use case to some global read receipt system, which is dumb as hell and something nobody needs.
This use case literally does not exist. It can also be solved by a simple email server. A business that wants to keep logs of all their messages being sent out or received can store everything on their server with inbound or outbound emails. If in the super extreme scenario where a lawyer sends an email and the counsel ignores it, they can get in a lot of legal trouble for lying and would just get delayed. They lawyer can also prove they sent an outbound copy on their email server. What do you think needs to be "auditable" in communication? A business sending a damn receipt does not need this solution, that's the end user for their email being valid. A lawyer sending private documents to each other want the literal last thing to be on a fucking public cloud server that is invisibly accessible by any fucking third party. Do you hear yourself? Are you a real person??
Literally none of these obscure scenarios you're trying to come up with even need a blockchain solution. You should recognize how hard you're trying to justify this as it being a dumb fuck solution. Despite all these issues you're apparently inventing, we use our existing technology every day and none of these are issues. You're coming off more like ChatGPT then a normal person.
I just gave you one example of a use case. It's hardly unique. There are plenty of time-sensitive messages sent in business settings, and plenty of people who don't necessarily want to acknowledge receiving them.
More examples, off the top of my head:
Manager tells worker they need to cover an emergency on the weekend, worker claims they never received the message.
Business wants to cancel a work order, contractor shows up and says they weren't properly notified of the cancellation.
Supervisor sends disciplinary note to employee before dismissal, employee says it was never sent and then claims wrongful termination.
And of course, this has nothing to do with email. So if you set up a "spam filter" that deletes your boss's messages, that's on you. They know they sent you the message, even if you delete it or otherwise pretend they didn't.
This is about an independent audit trail, not "keeping logs". Your personal email server doesn't count, because you can alter the log to show whatever you want. Nobody is going to take your word for it.
Finally, it's pretty clear you have no idea how this system is supposed to work, because you keep claiming that documents are "accessible by any third party". You do understand that not every blockchain system is public, right?
You didn't even know what a pgp key was before this convo or read receipts, you have no idea what you're talking about. This is not a real problem and is already solved with outbox emails.
Falsifying evidence is a crime.
Lol then the manager will say "why did you not respond", it's on the worker. They're not going to pull up a fucking blockchain, they're going to pull out their phone and say "see, I sent you this".
That's the contractors fault. Blockchain is irrelevant. If they didn't check their email, they're sure as hell not going to check a dumb ass blockchain.
Crazy, I wonder how they know that? Maybe because they know they pressed the "send" button, and it's the other party's responsibility to accept.
Again, none of these situations need a dumb fucking blockchain.
https://www.blockchain.com/explorer
Lol what? I knew what they were, I just thought it was stupid to bring them up because they solve nothing.
Oh, then there is no need to worry about it, I guess.
"Respond to what??"
Then the worker pulls out their phone and says, "see, it's not on my phone"
Unless, of course, the sender/manager actually didn't properly notify the contractor/employee, and now they are lying to cover their ass.
Like many disputes, it amounts to he-said-she-said. When it goes to court, the jury will flip a coin. There is a better way.