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Re:Why Use Mailing Lists? by liendolucas on Friday September 26, 2025 @04:32PM (#45390731)
I would probably change "Not dependent on a specific company" to "Not being hostage from ransomware from specific companies".

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887

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Re:Why Use Mailing Lists? by kragen on Friday September 26, 2025 @05:05PM (#45391018)
Even without Slack's ransomware-as-a-service business model, being dependent on a specific company is a big problem. If Dropbox decides to ban your country for being running too many AI crawlers, or DejaNews goes out of business, or XOJane decides to pivot to a different market (see http://web.archive.org/web/20171015000000*/http://www.xojane... for example), or LiveJournal gets bought by Russian trolls, it's potentially a big problem.
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