"Email is now an oligopoly, a service gatekept by a few big companies which does not follow the principles of net neutrality."

"One strike and you're out. For the rest of your life."

It's true that today's anti-spam measures are ruthless and block ranges of IP addresses permanently without easy recourse including residential IP addresses, etc. So your self-hosted mail server often finds it's e-mail is undeliverable, especially to anyone else using a Big Tech mail service.

The suggestions are at the end of the article and centre around softening the approach to anti-spam measures, with less permanence.

Will Big Tech listen and make it easier for individuals and self-hosters? Probably not, as the pendulum has swung their way with the ability to block automatically.

E-mail is not really complicated to host and has been a basic Internet service since the beginning of the Internet. In theory, many could be (technically) hosting their e-mail from home with their own domain names, and that way moving their e-mail wherever they go.

You have the right and freedom to host your own e-mail, but it may be a difficult road to travel.

See https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

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