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Indeed, but this will then going to face the issue of Gmail (et al.) refusing to accept e-mail sent from small providers.
by BlueTemplar 4y ago
Indeed, but this will then going to face the issue of Gmail (et al.) refusing to accept e-mail sent from small providers.
- phpisthebest 4y agoI am sure a another huge vendor like Amazon, facebook, or Microsoft will step in to provide the email services :)
- hoosieree 4y agoThis is where regulations can step in, to require email providers to accept mail from essential service providers.
- phpisthebest 4y agoI will pass on that, no one should be required to accept messages from anyone
- hoosieree 4y agoHow about "required to not mark as spam"?
- phpisthebest 4y agoI am not a fan of regulation in general But SPAM should be resolved with strict adherence to standards like SPF, DKIM, etc. and where those fail it should be improved Today many companies, large and small, as well as government agencies, large and small do SPF and DKIM very very very wrong. Unless we can get this right I fail to see how regulations would do anything other than make things worse Some of the biggest SPAM abusers are not the small providers but the Large companies like Gmail and Microsoft who do not vet their customers very well
- BlueTemplar 4y agoIf they are refusing messages, there's no need to bother marking them as spam.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoAh yes, I can see how this even worse situation could easily happen trying to "fix" the previous one...
- shagie 4y agoThis isn't necessarily a "from a small provider" but rather "administered by the library." It could be any email service that allows the librarian-administer to reset the password for an account. If I mess up my exchange email, the helpdesk can verify my identity and reset my password. I suspect that most going down this approach would find it easier to use a large hosting service that they provision and administer (along with allowing password resets) than to try to have an underfunded library IT staff stand up an arbitrarily large email service and manage all parts of it.