-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 09:50:15AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > > > I don't understand why a home user would not be using 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. [...] > 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. +100 To put that on stronger terms -- we'd end up with two and a half gatekeepers for mail: Google, Hotmail (aka Microsoft) and... who did I forget? The same nightmare we have at the moment with the so-called "social" networks. They are already trying hard (and spam *is* their ally in that). Don't help them, they are powerful enough as-is. Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlqyEQ8ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYfPgCdFbzLO6zZx4hB3jSxS0piziJh 1DMAmweVvITrQO+2BUxAaIqVC9u3lBma =/loT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
