> Email's great advantage is that it's a truly level playing field. Yes that also allows spammers to send outgoing shit smtp traffic, but I can deal with that.

> Email's great advantage is that it's a truly level playing field. Yes that also allows spammers to send outgoing shit smtp traffic, but I can deal with that. Agree so much. I really don't get the spam complaint anymore. Commercial providers like gmail do get a lot of spam (I have a gmail account as well, it gets more spam than ham) but it doesn't need to be that way. I run all my own email infrastructure and spam is a non-issue. My primary email has been around very publicly since the mid-90s and is surely on every spam list ever but between a strict postfix configuration and a bayesian spam filter, spam is not a thing anymore. I'm trying to think the last time I got a spam email in my inbox and can't remember. It's so rare.