Gmail email blocking is off the rails (again)

Thu Dec 5 06:24:10 UTC 2019

25 years or so from now when the internet is basically a big CATV-like
service someone will write a book about how "SPAM Ate The Internet".

And a few other things, among them:

Phase II: Ham Eats The Internet.

Now that every marcom, billing, etc dept and their pet dog has figured
out they can send almost unlimited email, billions of them, just about
for free and if they have any sort of recognizable corporate identity
they won't be challenged by intermediaries (end users might try) watch
as you get 100, 500, 1000... emails/day from them collectively.

Hey it was just *one* email/day...from each of the Fortune 1000, and
their subsidiaries, and their agents, and...

But that's ok, the new masters of this universe will just charge both
ends for each and every email (perhaps a few included free with your
Hulu or Netflix subscription) and old timers will talk about how great
it was back in the old days when you could run lists like nanog for
roughly nothing tho I don't know where they'll talk about that.

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