I've always thought that, I also used to operate my own email server and I've encountered the same problem with other email providers, always the big ones, yaho

I've always thought that, I also used to operate my own email server and I've encountered the same problem with other email providers, always the big ones, yahoo (there was a time when yahoo was big in email, at least here), microsoft and now yes, google. What is even worse is that sometimes google just drops the email messages, replies with 250 ok, but the email never gets delivered to inbox or even spam. Definetly the big 4 or 5 or whatever are taking over on all aspects of our life. Actually if I think better about it, they have already done so, there was an article here on hn about blocking google, amazon and ms network blocks, nothing really works as expected without them.