[TriLUG] recommendations for on-line Linux VM

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2025, shay walters wrote:

>    I guess my point is that it's not that the big guys are blocking
> the small guys from having email servers, it's just that they have to
> deal with the floods of bad email out there,

It's unfortunate that the current method of sending e-mail (it being cheap 
to send an e-mail, and cheap to receive one) has resulted in the big guys 
blocking everyone else from sending e-mail (for the benefit of people like 
us, of course), because they're powerless to do anything to fix it.

You have to make it expensive to send an e-mail, eg you need a proof of 
work, while keeping it cheap to receive one. The outgoing mail machine has 
to generate a hash for each e-mail (including the receipient's address) 
with a certain number of zeroes at the beginning (which increases by one 
every couple of years, to compensate for Moore's law). This makes it 
expensive to send a large numbers of e-mails. Confirming the hash at the 
recipient's end is trivial, so receiving an e-mail is still cheap.

It would only require Microsoft or gmail to adopt this and pretty soon 
everyone would have to fall into line.

Why aren't they (the big guys) doing it? It's not like adding the code to 
do it would be hard. I assume they like being the ones who dictate who 
gets to send e-mail.

Joe

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