On Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:53:51 -0500
Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:

> For most google groups, you can subscribe by email. I think this is
> sending an email to:

>     [email protected]

> It would IMHO be outrageous to exclude people without a google
> account.

I think folks who try to post from eMail boxen associated with their
own domain names will have trouble.  I have better luck submitting
posts to *weewx-users* and *weewx-development* from my GMail mailbox.
I believe this is because Google arbitrarily and capriciously blocks
inbound eMail from other mail servers, which it occasionally deems to
be sources of spam.  Because I share an eMail server with dozens of
DOZENS of other retail customers at my Web hosting service (WHS) —
some of whom may in fact dabble in spam — my eMail domain is from time
to time blocked by association.

I know Google prescribes various techniques for other mail servers to
AVOID SEEMING TO BE origins of spam, but these are onerous or not
available to retail customers.

Meanwhile, major spam generators all seem to use GMail mailboxes on
Google's servers.  Pot, meet kettle.  Yes, blocking eMail from other
servers DOES SEEM OUTRAGEOUS and violates unspoken covenants about the
ubiquity of eMail services.

Google doesn't block its own servers, though, so, reliably to post to
WeeWX groups, I use GMail.

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