A SpamAssassin Surprise
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/987566/3be928f6e483853d/- Please do not let a story like that discourage you from running your own mail server. I am really worried about the future where 2-3 adtech corporations control what we receive and read, and we are not far away from that future.
As a counterpoint, I have been running my own E-mail server for the last 25 years or so, and haven't found it to be terribly problematic. Yes, there is an occasional issue, but I'd rather control my mail, than hand it off to someone else.
-- jwr Reply - I'd second this.
Get yourself some managed hosting package with a TLD at Hetzner or somebody like them and run your own stuff. NextCloud with calendars, mail, maybe a blog will cost you sth. like 3 Euro/month.
That's totally fine and the hardest part is finding a good domain name anyways. :-D
-- martin_a Reply - > What was once a nice, federated service (in a much simpler time) has become a complex mess with high barriers to entry, pushing users into a small number of large, proprietary services
This also describes all other communications and socialness on the web; from bbs and forums to modern "social media". Is there anything small and niche (apart from, literally, HN) that hasn't been completely utterly destroyed by the nasty people online?
-- willvarfar Reply - Exactly the same thing for me. While it is clearly not good to suddenly receive a ton of spam, I rather have a ton of false negatives than false positives, so in this case, no real harm was done.
-- deng Reply