Re:DigitalOcean blocks SMTP ports 465 and 587 since last month
by subscribed on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @12:41PM
(#43623731)
How can I move along if EVERY online shop, mechanic, government body or school I tlak with NEEDS my email address to facilitate the contact, conversation or transaction?
What do you propose to these who are currently forced to provide email addresses to lead their daily lives uninterrupted?
And I'm not asking for the example appropriate for the primary school aged child or a senior living in the care home.
Just examples for the normal human adults.
Re:DigitalOcean blocks SMTP ports 465 and 587 since last month
by kees99 on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @01:13PM
(#43624100)
I guess GP meant that online shops, mechanics, government bodies and schools were meant to move along?
Not exactly clear where to, though. We don't have another messaging system with quite as wide reach (a.k.a. high value, in terms of Metcalfe's law) as email.
Texts(SMS), maybe? But those are not without their own problems - see "green text bubble stigma".
Email only persists due to nostalgia. We have literally dozens of other methods to sync state between two machines.
Private git repo? Private IRC?
Note how providers are not blocking other options. Email is inherently insecure due to the header structure, and open to the world by default is an invitation to be misused by spam.
Sorry everyone but an "open world" has revealed we're all just biological meat suits everywhere doing human shit, hallucinating there's some culture binding us (which just translates to "practice of a cult").
Breaking Bad ended 10 years ago. Star Wars was decades ago. Email is terrible in many ways. Move along.