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Rahul Dhesi writes:
>It's very hard these days to guarantee that email will never be
>deliberately blocked.  It's unfortunate that things have come to this.

Yes, but 'deliberately' is the key word here. Email doesn't just "get
blocked". People block email. Rahul blocks email.

>>Couldn't you make your RSS filtering layer part of Nojunk? That could
>>be more effective from your customers' point of view...
>
>This is technically very hard to do.

Well, off hand, at the SMTP exchange level you manage to test an
address against the RSS list. I don't see how the problem is different
at the Nojunk level. Your tool might not allow this at this time, but
the problem is the same. Maybe easier because done offline.

>so some mail filtering policies will apply to everybody uniformly.

And this is bad news because when I joined a2i, a2i was offering
reliable, technical, no-frills Internet access that was suitable for
professional use. And now it's very difficult to change my email address.
It would have been so easy to *start* Nojunk on a new domain instead of
rahul.net...

>Having your own domain also allows many other interesting things, so you
>and others might seriously want to consider this.  This would result in
>a change in your email address, but after that, you would never have to
>change it again.

Unfortunately, this is not true, as we discussed earlier. For a small
business, getting a domain name does not guarantee *anything*. It's
very easy to contest the ownership of a domain name and while the
dispute is being resolved, the domain name is completely disabled and
so is email. From one day to the next. If the dispute is lost (and it
probably will be - not enough money for lawyers and too many other
things to do), then the domain name is lost too. It might be getting
better now that there are more serious registrars than Network <spit>
Solutions but not yet what I would call reliable.

Pierre.
pierre@rahul.net