47 sats \ 2 replies \ @Lumor 4 Nov 2022 \ on: The Death of Decentralized Email bitcoin
Running email off a smaller webhosting company in Norway without noticable delivery problems, contrary to the article.
His point is from an American perspective, and probably deals with his frustrations trying to set up large scale self-managed/hosted email processes for various work he's had. I'm pretty sure someone posted an earlier version of this same article that had even more dev-ops details of his frustrations.
Europe (EU and individual European countries) in general are known for more stringent regulations and protections over anything internet related. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying if you haven't had his issues running similar scale email processes for business, it's probably a jurisdictional difference...
I mean... not to be flippant, but what does "SMTP is an open protocol" mean in China or Russia or in the West, given some pressing intelligence/national security concern is pressing? I imagine the capture he talks about was planned and seen as a mutual good by competing despotisms around the world...
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Original article by Lopp:
By the time I left a decade later, that number was over 100 million emails per day.
I guess that's the main difference, I just have a few personal accounts, not sending any spam - sorry, marketing emails like his former employer.
So it appears the juggernauts have pulled up the ladder after themselves to make it hard on the competition. A kind of protocol-level instead of legal capture. But if you send less than 10 emails per day on average, you'll probably be fine, for now.
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