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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by BobaFloutist on Sunday November 08, 2026 @06:48PM (#50419011)
Complain all you want about the monopolists, and I do think you're right to do so, but a lot of their power comes from and is aimed at defeating the overwhelming flood of spam.

Mail, then emails, then home phones, then cell phones, then texts, then social media have been gradually rendered less and less usable by bad actors systematically abusing every single tool we try to use to communicate with one another to steal from us, lie to us, and manipulate our beliefs, and we'll just keep inventing and discarding new ways of communicating until we reckon with this.

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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by pembrook on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:50PM (#50419552)
With cheaper AI classification models coming out every day now, the spam problem is on the cusp of basically being solved in every communication channel.

The only question is how many years the lazy big tech network-effects monopolies (like Google and Microsoft) will hold this back from happening.

The optimist in me says this will unlock pathways to true decentralization of push communication protocols (like SMTP) instead of only have decentralization of pull-oriented protocols (like HTTP).

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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by Arainach on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:10PM (#50419698)
On the contrary, with cheaper AI generation the spam problem becomes harder by the day.
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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by Natfan on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:05PM (#50420522)
classification != generation
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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by Arainach on Sunday November 08, 2026 @11:06PM (#50420959)
Generation is, and always will be, cheaper and easier to do well than classification.

AI becoming faster empowers attackers far more than it empowers defenders. We're seeing this in every discipline and every corner of the software industry.

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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by Roark66 on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:22AM (#50422662)
The power of defenders is greater than attackers here, because the defenders have more knowledge about what is "normal" for you the user.
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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by djray on Sunday November 08, 2026 @10:44PM (#50420811)
"Two years from now, spam will be solved." - Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum, in 2004
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Re:Outlook.com Is Quietly Rejecting Email from Domains Witho... by expedition32 on Monday November 09, 2026 @05:27AM (#50423685)
A bunch of my accounts were hacked a while book and since then my outlook email is getting flooded with spam. I have to give MS credit their spam filter is pretty good.

I'll never pay for email so your options are either outlook or Gmail and I don't trust Google.

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