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I don't like the implication that the work outlined in this article is reasonable.

Imagine if there were a detailed guide on how to keep the post office from throwing out the letters you send?

Because mail that you personally send out by definition isn't spam - so you are doing work to get around broken spam filters.

why can't you just pay $10 or something as a deposit and, since you're not actually a spammer and nobody will ever actually mark what you send as spam, never lose that deposit.

This guide should be like four lines long and take 5 mi utes to follow.

I mean after glancing at that write-up, I'd never dream of running my own mail server. I use gmail. Why would I jump through hoops and still risk having letters I took the time to write, still marked as spam? I lose on two counts! (invest time, for a worse outcome.)

This part of the industry is broken. I think a deposit paid by non-spammers which they lose if people start marking their letters spam, might fix it.




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