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> Linode respond swiftly to abuse reports[0], block outgoing SMTP by default

One instance of them supposedly responding quickly to an email abuse report isn't showing they're consistently responsive to abuse reports. I don't know if they are or are not. I don't even know that this blog post even refers to Linode, they're not mentioned once.

And its not true they always block outgoing SMTP by default. Loads of old accounts do not have SMTP blocked. New accounts since 2019 sometimes have it blocked, but given the last few times I've made an account and didn't have any blocks it doesn't seem that often. Maybe I just got lucky though.

And don't get me wrong here, I'm not intentionally singling out Linode here. There's loads of cheap VPS providers that enable this kind of abuse. They're not necessarily better or worse in this regard to many others.

> 90% of the spam that I receive from a DMARC-validated sender comes from Google; should every Gmail user be punished because Google aren’t “doing enough”?

Yes. Just like those telephone companies originating most of the spam phone calls should get disconnected. If they're going to enable abusers, they should get cut off.