Email. The og decentralised system. Anyone can run an SMTP server. 

Then came spammers. Then came (centralised) spammer listing servers.

Now, nobody dare run their own email server.

Established 1968. Cast about parenting, life in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 South Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, coding, being older than most around here and general nonsense.

i still run my own server 🙈🙈 i just also forward to my gmail

You're fighting the good fight. Good for you.

I'm done. I lost a contract because a proposal I sent was flagged as spam. I'm too small (and tired) to fight any longer.

i lost this battle on the automated SMS front but i refuse to lose this one (although i do use resend and mailgun and etc for projects too) — my first email setup was UW IMAP and Pine, i can’t give up now

I eventually had to stop. Too many customers not receiving my emails.

20+ years of self sufficiency down the shitter.