[Twisell]

Got a nice .xyz domain mainly for mail with SPF,DKIM correctly set up and tested against multiple validators.

No big issues so far except for the HR department of a potential new gig which can painlessly mail [e-mail] about job interviews BUT never get my replies back.

I don't who to blame more in this mess:

- Me for playing smartass instead of using a @gmail.com because they impose the rules so everybody comply to them (maybe my reluctance to encourage this broken system explain my recklessness)

- The IT department of this organization that probably didn't what to deal with modern standard and/or reasonable spam filtering and set up a blunt rule for new TLD (I mean come on it was a REPLY to a mail ADRESSED to this specific mailbox)

- The broken system that keep on inventing arbitrary new rules that everyone must implement to keep getting accepted by "the big players". (For instance I already had to change hosting two years ago because apparently you are also responsible for bad neighbors)

Guess i'll just have to be brave and migrate to a more classical TLD and set up redirects to ease transition. But it's pretty annoying to start over with crap like that because some dudes in "the big players" teams decided to ban a whole TLD just because it's "easier".

[cortesoft]

> (maybe my reluctance to encourage this broken system explain my recklessness)

This is a great example of a Collective Action problem. Everyone would be better off if we could break the gmail domination of email policy, but as an individual you will have zero effect on gmail's dominance and only suffer the pain of not being a part of the system.

[Twisell]

And I would love to see EFF a little more involved in that matter. If things continues to goes downhill this far how many years left before big players decide to outright reject mail that doesn't come from a curated whitelist of their own?

The responsible answer should be IRL legal actions against real spamers because they'll always adapt to new arbitrary protocol rules faster than legitimate users, it's their jobs!

Even from an environmental standpoint I get tired of user-shaming articles about why you should delete your email for the planet. Maybe as engineers our duty is somewhat to propose a new version of the mail protocol that doesn't allow this much crap to fly around in the first place. Current solutions seems to revolve around the concept of "everybody should duck and cover if anything is suspicious" thus blocking some legitimate message that no sane human would reject should they be in charge instead of a basic AI.

PS: I'm not suggesting by any mean that you should punish any human being with manual moderation.

PS:PS: Maybe a NGO whitelist system is a solution, I'm just fearfull about which entity will end up with such power. But actually domain filtering is already kind of an implicit unpredictable non shared whitelist build on top of ICAAN register... So here we are already...

[YPPH]

There's good reasons to use a custom TLD aside from being a smartass, or disdain for Google policies. It's portable and if you have a very common name, unless you were one of those early Gmail adopters buying invites off eBay, you won't have a reasonable and short alias.

[aox]

It's nobody's fault but the XYZ registry. They sell XYZ domains for $1 for the first year, which makes them the #1 favorite of spammers/phishers.