Message boards via e-mail, not Gemini

[Nicolò Balzarotti]

nothien at uber.space writes:

> We already have e-mail based message lists, and we've been using
> them neatly for long-form (and to a lesser extent medium-form and
> short-form) discussions for a while now.  E-mail has some of the
> following advantages:

There's a major drawback in emails that render them useless IMHO:
>
> * decentralized / federated: there's no single source for e-mail,
>   everybody has copies of the entire thing.  People can also make e-mail
>   threads, particularly of messageboards/lists publicly accessible, like
>   the archives for this mailing list, at
>   https://mailing-list-archive.gemi.dev/www/.

Right now, it's quite the opposite.  Google & Yahoo & Microsoft & co.
control the vast majority of email addresses.  Also, they don't like
emails sent from dynamic ips.  Try to setup a mail server nowadays.  I
have, but my internet provider gives me a dynamic ip. Fine? Nope, my
mail is blocked by 90% of providers, even if my setup is correct and my
score on [1] is excellent, google refuses to accept my emails.   So here
I am, sending a mail from a google account.  Email was decentralized,
now it is not.  But if you can prove me wrong (host a mail server with a
dynamic ip and being able to send emails to anybody) please do, I'd
really like to ditch google mail.

[1] https://www.mail-tester.com/