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No, it's real. I gave it up a year ago, after hosting my own mail since forever. Exactly as stated: Hotmail (or whatever MS mail is called these days), GMail et
by interfixus 9y ago
No, it's real. I gave it up a year ago, after hosting my own mail since forever. Exactly as stated: Hotmail (or whatever MS mail is called these days), GMail etc. are the main culprits. So yes, 'colossal' is the word.
- danieltillett 9y agoYep I did the same. I ran my own email server off the same IP address for 15 years with zero problems, but I had to give up recently because email is not something that you can do on you own anymore. You now have to pay some somebody to vouch for you or else MS will send your emails to spam or even worse just randomly delete them.
- EGreg 9y agoSomething should eventually come along and replace email. Like bitcoin and other technologies, what was originally designed to be decentralized became centralized in practice.
- mbrock 9y agoBitcoin's history involves a plan for combating spam—that's why proof of work was invented. Hashcash, Bitcoin's PoW game, was intended for use as an email attachment to create a real cost to spam without any micropayments. "If you want to mail me, prove that you burned five seconds of CPU time."
- kuczmama 9y agoThat is really interesting. Do you know of any articles that go into more details?
- reitanqild 9y agoCould be you had a customer/other recipient like my ex-boss: I'm fairly certain he used the spam button instead of delete on his Google apps for your domain (now gsuite I guess) account.
- gamache 9y agoHosted my own email for 18 years, same experience, switched to pobox.com about two years ago. It really burns me up, but I need my emails to arrive where I sent them.