Heh.
I DO run my own email server, but I've used GMail for years for exactly
the reason you cite.
Their anti-spam measures are industry best.
I knew from the start that I would someday need to separate from Google.
I knew it would be difficult.
It turns out to be even more difficult than expected, and not entirely
Google's fault.
Many sites refuse email directly from me because I'm just "the little guy".
On 5/27/26 8:46 AM, Jay Maynard wrote:
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
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