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Good question, we have the export functionality so people can move off easily, but I did not take into account a way to contact domain owners to let them know if we are turning off the server. We have enough AWS credits to run gateway for free (to us) for ~20 months as-is, but I suppose we should make a clearly documented plan for sunsetting the service if we ever decide to do that. Great point, and is something I will mull on.

+1 for Angular, upgrading has always been very easy and somewhere since V15 or so the build times have gotten insanely fast. Hot reloading a largeish cross-platform app with WASM takes less than 3 seconds. Deploys are also very simple.

Of course not. We must however be reminded in the West that weakness is not the same as goodness and that all the pontificating on virtues doesn't matter if your society can be dominated by another (ie. Athens losing to Sparta). My problem with the article and your response is the notion that anyone interested in the (supposed) military capability of the Spartans are de facto Nazis, when in fact it might just be interesting history we can still learn from. There's a saying about babies and bathwater or something.

I will give it a read, thanks for the source. I'm definitely guilty of indulging in pop culture impressions of the Spartan warrior being the most disciplined and elite singular unit in history so this will be an interesting read.

Does Thermopylae count as a loss by this definition? As I'm sure it does, that doesn't dispel much of the myth of the prowess of the individual Spartan warrior, which is really what I find intriguing about the whole thing.

> we should remember that, in actual history, Sparta was an oppressive society that established itself as the enemy of the Greek city-states that valued democracy and the arts. We should also remember that many of the modern people who have been most enthusiastic about the Spartans as historical role models have also been really enthusiastic about oppressing and killing their fellow human beings.

My interest in Sparta is that it exemplifies how elite a group of people can become when they focus on one thing. As mentioned in the article, Sparta beat Athens in the Second Peloponnesian War. Athens was the naval and intellectual powerhouse of the area at the time, yet the unsophisticated specialized warmongers won. It illustrates that in life hyperfocusing can yield results. I do not forget that Sparta was an oppressive and brutal society that I in no way would want to live in. I do not idealize their caste culture or slaveholding, but sometimes the bad guys win, and Sparta is a colorful example of that.

> Leonidas’ 300 men made a brave stand in the mountains, and a superior Persian force wiped them out. You can see it like the Nazis did and the guys in the ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ T-shirts do, as a glorious battle in which an honorable band of brothers sacrificed their lives for their principles. Or you can see it as a tragedy in which the leaders of an oligarchical, slave-dependent society threw away their finest soldiers’ lives, and for what? To briefly delay the Persian Army while failing to achieve their goal of protecting Athens and the rest of northern Greece from the Persian attack?

Interestingly, the Greeks did end up fending off the Persian invasion due to the victory at the Battle of Salamis where the Athenian navy crushed the Persian navy. The Spartan stand at Thermopylae was critical to delay the invasion though, let's not pretend like those deaths were futile.

Ah gotcha, good point! Something for me to consider moving forward.

Thanks for the comment, currently they're hosted on S3 but I toyed around with the idea of having a downloadable application that syncs the emails to your own device and deletes them from the server. Is that something you'd find valuable for the sake of privacy?

I will work to address the TOS soon, good thinking.

Thanks! That is a very reasonable concern, hopefully won't be an issue but you never know. Perhaps at some point I will add that feature to ensure people don't get locked out in some unforeseen circumstance in the future.

It's not actually forwarding, it's sending a new email with the same content. I haven't seen any issues with them going to spam but definitely a concern of mine.

Thanks for the links, wasn't aware of these products until now. Will have to checkout their services more but does seem to be the same in essence.