Right on! I used to have an email server in the 90's and even hand wrote the sendmail config file, lol.
Shell account, of course, at the local ISP. On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 7:13 PM, Forest Dean Feighner < forest.feigh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Right on! I used to have an email server in the 90's and even hand wrote > the sendmail config file, lol. > > Shell account, of course, at the local ISP. > > > > On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 6:50 PM, Ben Finney <bign...@debian.org> wrote: > >> David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: >> >> > I don't understand why a home user would not be using a smarthost. >> > Perhaps we're talking about a different group of people. Why would a >> > home user want to relay mail rather than submit it to a smarthost? >> >> First, note that even if you don't know the reason why someone would >> want to run their own mail server on their own connection, that is no >> argument to arbitrarily deny them the ability to do it. >> >> So, while you're well within your rights to be curious about why, the >> question doesn't demand an answer. Whoever wants to run a mail server on >> their home connection should by default have the right to do so, for any >> reason or no reason, and doesn't need to explain why to anyone. >> >> >> As it happens, there are excellent reasons to want to do this. They are >> no less strong now than when doing this was much more common in the >> 1990s and earlier: in order to retain decentralised control, distributed >> throughout the community, of a decentralised and federated communication >> system. >> >> The news for the past decade (and more) has given frequent reminder of >> why it's important to wrest control of our communications out of the >> hugh, centralised choke-points that currently reign. That by itself is >> reason enough to support and encourage more people running mail servers >> independent of those entities. >> >> The person in question may have additioonal reasons, or separate >> reasons. The point is that email is *designed* and *works best* as a >> decentralised, federated system. We should be asking not “why would >> anyone do this?”, but rather “why have we gone so far in relinquishing >> the ability to do this?”. >> >> And then take active steps to move more toward federated, decentralised >> communication again. >> >> -- >> \ “With Lisp or Forth, a master programmer has unlimited power | >> `\ and expressiveness. With Python, even a regular guy can reach | >> _o__) for the stars.” —Raymond Hettinger | >> Ben Finney >> >> >
