Re:Spam blacklisting is out of control
by Karrot_Kream on Sunday February 06, 2022 @12:42AM
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I'd hardly say this is a feature. It's an artifact of the fact that once upon a time computers were expensive, so many people had to share a server with multiple email accounts, and a netop had to run this server. The fact that Alice is beholden to example.com helps nobody but example.com. In an ideal world, Alice would not have to couple her infrastructure with a blocklist and Alice would have the choice of blocklist herself.
Re:Spam blacklisting is out of control
by Godel_unicode on Sunday February 06, 2022 @01:09AM
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Spam is inevitable. Opining about ideal worlds is fun, but it's also irrelevant because that world is gone and it will never come back because it can't.
Alice is not beholden to example.com, she can use any hosting provider she wants. Moving providers isn't even that difficult. It's also totally irrelevant, because again spam is inevitable.
This is the way that email is designed to work and the fact that users and service providers have choice is a feature, not a bug. If you don't want your service provider to do this type of filtering, that is your choice. But you have absolutely no right to say that Alice can't get the service she wants from example.com because it's inconvenient for you.
Edit: and just to head off the inevitable "but what about if it's at work and I can't change providers", the domain and email accounts belong to your employer, not you. You are welcome to work somewhere else if you don't like how they configure their systems.