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  • digdilem@feddit.uktoProgramming@beehaw.orgEmail is Dead
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    1 year ago

    As long as you set up SPF and DKIM records on your mailserver, you’ll never get marked as spam.

    Sorry - that’s factually incorrect. If your IP is on a residential block, you’ll be downscored. If you’re on a dynamic IP, same again, but weighted even more harshly, by pretty much every antispam service. In addition, every commercial service is very secretive about what methods they use, for good reason, so you cannot claim with any accuracy that “you just need to do this $thing to get read”. (Although I do agree the original post is not well researched, knowledgeable nor particularly useful to anyone)

    SPF and DKIM are essential to getting your email out, but it’s not the only thing, and sometimes no matter what you do do, your hit rate is going to be low.

    Source: Me. Been running mail servers privately and commercially for over twenty years. Before then, I ran fidonet and netmail services through the 90s and into the tail end of the 80s. There’s many things I know bugger all about, but email is not one of them. (And if anyone’s interested what I do for personal email now - I use gmail, because it works and maintaining it is somebody else’s problem)


  • digdilem@feddit.uktoProgramming@beehaw.orgEmail is Dead
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    1 year ago

    AI’s been in use in commercial anti-spam for quite a while now - and on the flip side is also being used by the spam senders. Just another front on the unending war.

    But spam (and phishing, and all malware) happens because humans get fooled by it. No reason to think AI will be any smarter.




  • Musk is not a likeable person, and I’m definitely not a fan - but he has changed the world. Not many people can say that and Reddit’s distaste for him has spilled over here recently.

    Paypal - first and still biggest widely trusted online payment handler.

    Tesla - Started a ground-breaking electric car market that’s changed the entire face of motorised transport, and is still the leader in the sector. Their motors and battery packs are still way ahead of anyone else.

    Starnet - Bringing low latency, high speed internet to remote locations around the globe. Even in the developed western world where other technologies have deemed it unaffordable.

    SpaceX - Seriously, who can fail to be impressed by seeing a rocket LANDING intact?

    All areas where other companies dicked around and really achieved very little through lack of vision, drive or funding.

    Yes, he’s had failures (Boring Company, Twitter) and yes he’s a category ten arsehole (accusing people of being paedophiles without grounds, manipulating stock prices illegally, pot smoking on live tv, having complete disregard for human beings’ feelings and lives, etc etc) . Does that give him a free pass to act like a knob? Of course not, but the man has actually achieved genuinely amazing things.