>How do we fix this? You start by taking every person who says "not worth it, man, just use GMail" and beating them with a rubber hose until they install and r

>How do we fix this? You start by taking every person who says "not worth it, man, just use GMail" and beating them with a rubber hose until they install and run a mail service for their vanity domains. More seriously, it's possible we've let this problem fester for so long that it's going to take serious effort to fix. By which I mean governmental intervention. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo cannot be allowed to dictate who gets to send and receive email, as they effectively do now through their massive marketshare dominance. Spam is a problem, but it's not an intractable one. In the 90s, sure, the technical problem was pretty hard. By the 00s, everybody just let Google handle it because Google wasn't going to Be Evil, and Google managed to solve it with a giant technical hammer. Technical people also tend to dismiss solutions because they don't fix every problem. The old Spam Solutions Checklist exemplifies this attitude. But what we have now is worse, i.e. just letting the world's most invasive corporation control all of it.