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by ColinWright 2993 days ago
> Everyone uses a centralized email provider now (Google, Microsoft, Apple, etc.), ...

No, it's not the case that "everyone" does that. I don't, and many of my colleagues don't. Perhaps muggles in general don't, and perhaps you're really only talking about such non-technical people, but your hyperbole undermines your argument.

And I'm getting really tired of those big services automatically classing as spam anything that comes from a different domain.

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> No, it's not the case that "everyone" does that. I don't, and many of my colleagues don't.

To add a little more nuance to that, millions (or billions?) of people working in various areas have email addresses provided by their employer with specific domain name suffixes. Even if those are using cloud based email providers like GSuite or Outlook 365, as far as someone who wants to correspond by email with these people is concerned (personal or work use), the email address is certainly not an @gmail.com or @outlook.com address. And all these people understand that quite well, even if they don't work in the tech sector.

> And I'm getting really tired of those big services automatically classing as spam anything that comes from a different domain.

This really bugs me A LOT! It's as if the systems have a knee jerk reaction based on domain names while they themselves wouldn't consider all their users (on their domains) as spammers.