On 26/12/2022 22:11, John Levine wrote:
With all due respect, you have no clue what it's like to run a large mail system. I only have some idea from talking to people who do. While I am no happier than anyone else about filtering mistakes, or the stream of spam from Gmail accounts that shows up in my inbox every morning, it is not like they could snap their fingers and fix it. The large mail systems have dedicated spammers who only attack specific systems with specific attacks using hacks like targeted BGP injection so that the traffic is invisible to everyone else.
You're right, I don't personally run a large system, but I do run small and consult for medium systems, a great many of which are getting replaced now by going off to gmail & outlook. I understand the challenges are significant but I also deplore the decision to move to gmail & outlook for, UK universities for example, who had a computer systems department in the past but now have subcontracted it to an outside contractor, who has in its turn subcontracted the email system to gmail or outlook for purely commercial reasons (and it's less headache). Email was one of the last means of communication that was not vendor-specific and this is changing.
Kindest regards,
Olivier
