Meh. I've run my own email server before. Switched to Gmail because the anti-spam measures got to be far too much work. Haven't looked back.
On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 7:41 AM Rupert Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't want to start a long-winded discussion, but for reference I'd > support some kind of signing mechanism, but only if it doesn't add > significant friction for new people joining, or re-joining after a gap. The > variety of people here is one of our strengths, IMO. (I've been here, on > and off, since the mid-90s). > > For now I just use a twitlist to ignore certain addresses (I'm not an LLM > fanboi, or a US contractor, so I don't read that stuff). > > As an aside, has anyone considered that the recent flood of AI > willy-waving came 100% from an actual LLM told to come here and stir the > pot? The lack of ability to 'read the room' made me think that. > > The word on the street (in FOSS and Fediverse circles) is that the future > is to boycott the big corporate comms hubs and for everyone to have their > own domain, which could be used to verify signed e-mail and/or host our own > blogs. Maybe it will even happen. > > Roops > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
