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I disagree on the third point. It was spam and scams that ruined self-hosted email. Gmail (and other large providers) became the solution to that because the

I disagree on the third point. It was spam and scams that ruined self-hosted email. Gmail (and other large providers) became the solution to that because the network effects of centralized spam filtering made for an increasingly valuable service to users.

pasbesoin 8y ago
Which started with their purchase of Postini, IIRC. One of the premier commercial spam identification and filtering services. Checking this, a quick search finds: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postini https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postini Oh, and, perhaps a bit ironically with respect to recent conversation and concerns around Google and its acquisitions: In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products, including Google Web Security, which was acquired by Google as part of Postini.[7] On August 21, 2012, Google announced it would be shutting down all of Postini's web services and folding the service's users into Google Apps. I recall that, but it was no longer in my conscious memory.