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[Petite Abeille]

> On Jan 8, 2021, at 15:14, Nicol? Balzarotti <anothersms at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Google & Yahoo & Microsoft & co. control the vast majority of email addresses.  

Yahoo? Is it a thing? In 2020?

You are conflating various underlying causes.

> Also, they don't like emails sent from dynamic ips.

Must email traffic is spam. And most of the work is to filter out spam.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/420391/spam-email-traffic-share/

Therefore the challenge of using a random residential address to do anything. No one will trust you. Rightly so, as most of them are compromised.

The challanges of setting up your own email infrastructure lies there: trust.

https://www.spamhaus.org/organization/

On the other hand, one could totally setup an alt-mail service, old-school, perhaps peer-to-peer, among friends and family.

Just don't expect the rest of the world to interact with it.

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