On Fri, Oct 27, 2023 at 4:23 PM Nathan Simington via Nnagain
wrote:
>
> This has gone from mere cost-shifting to protocol takeover. Self-hosting is
> essentially dead because you are guaranteed to get filtered by Outlook and
> Gmail, which means that there is de facto embrace-and-extend --
This has gone from mere cost-shifting to protocol takeover. Self-hosting is
essentially dead because you are guaranteed to get filtered by Outlook and
Gmail, which means that there is de facto embrace-and-extend -- "best
viewed in Internet Explorer at 800x600" but for a core standard.
On Fri, Oct
[Was Amtrack]
> 2) I could get mad that I figure 80% of this new email list is vanishing into
> spam boxes.
> What of the 10s of thousands of other emails that have come over the years
> not just from lists.bufferbloat.net but from people trying honestly to
> communicate?
There is/was a good
I received Nathan's email through my personal server & MTA.
I've been running my own MTA since 2000. It's a non trivial amount of
work to keep it useful & working. Many list providers went out of
business likely because the cost to run them exceeded revenues.
The majors read everyone's email
On 10/27/23 12:37, Dave Taht via Nnagain wrote:
I could get mad that I figure 80% of this new email list is vanishing
into spam boxes. As the administrator, I check my logs, the email was
accepted, it is not in any public spam blockers like RBL, and I have
no idea what to do or who to contact
Normally I would blog a story like this, but knowing I have an
audience of at least 10 people that might read it, via email, you can
ignore it if you want, or cue up the song at the end and wade through
it. This story is pertinent to the nn list eventually, I think. After
some editing, it will end
2 items: 1 - nathan's email ended up in my spam folder, and if david
had not replied I would not have seen even part of it. I had to search
on a key phrase "Branching from Dave's thread" to find it (A search
for "nnagain nathan" did not), and Google's filter described it as
"this email looks
