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Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com
Fri Jan 8 17:55:13 GMT 2021
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On Jan 8, 2021, at 15:14, Nicolò Balzarotti <anothersms at gmail.com> wrote:
Google & Yahoo & Microsoft & co. control the vast majority of email addresses.
Yahoo? Is it a thing? In 2020?
You are conflating various underlying causes.
Also, they don't like emails sent from dynamic ips.
Must email traffic is spam. And most of the work is to filter out spam.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/420391/spam-email-traffic-share/
Therefore the challenge of using a random residential address to do anything. No one will trust you. Rightly so, as most of them are compromised.
The challanges of setting up your own email infrastructure lies there: trust.
https://www.spamhaus.org/organization/
On the other hand, one could totally setup an alt-mail service, old-school, perhaps peer-to-peer, among friends and family.
Just don't expect the rest of the world to interact with it.
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