Subj : Re: Community
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : boraxman
Date : Fri Oct 07 2022 22:00:09

 pF>  bo> https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-th
 pF>  bo> -years-
 pF>  bo> i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
 pF> 
 pF>  bo> Don't know how much truth there is in this,
 pF> 
 pF> If that's the article I think it is, there's a lot of truth in it. I ran
 pF> my  own mail server for about 5 years back in the 2000s, and it was
 pF> manageable.  Trying to send mail from an ISP's IP block or a VPS
 pF> nowadays is a pain, and  getting your IPs off of blacklists is extremely
 pF> difficult.
 pF> 
 pF> I've resorted to using a web host to forward mail to gmail. It's not the 
 pF> same as having mail hosted locally and running my own SPAM filters and 
 pF> procmail.
 pF> 
 pF> 

I have heard multiple "anecdotes" to this effect.  One on its own isn't worth much, but when you have others reporting the same thing, there is something.

It's really depressing to see the closing of what was once open architecture. The walls are closing in.

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