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<div style="direction: ltr;">I don’t know. Do I miss the days of every person and their dog running a mail server on a Linux server in a basement cupboard?</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Huge crowds and high drama on nanae and spam-l type places</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">You never know whether your mail is going to get through or not because of weird and wonderful notions about spam filtering
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<div style="direction: ltr;">No shortage of open relays and hacked Matt Wright formmail.pl</div>
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<div style="direction: ltr;">Whoever heard of backup?</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> NANOG <nanog-bounces+ops.lists=gmail.com@nanog.org> on behalf of Mike Hammett via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 8, 2020 3:57:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> NANOG <nanog@nanog.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Consolidation of Email Platforms Bad for Email?</font>
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<div><span style="font-size:13.3333px">I originally asked on mailops, but here is a much wider net and I suspect there's a lot of overlap in interest.</span></div>
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I had read an article one time, somewhere about the ongoing consolidation of e-mail into a handful of providers was bad for the Internet as a whole. It was some time ago and thus, the details have escaped me, so I was looking to refresh my recollection.</span>
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<div style="font-size:13.3333px">Have any of you read a similar article before? If so, can you link me to it?</div>
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Mike Hammett<br>
Intelligent Computing Solutions<br>
http://www.ics-il.com<br>
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Midwest-IX<br>
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