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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 13:16:24 JST Evan Prodromou

   Back in the early 90s everyone's personal email address was like person@networkia.internetted.connecto because the most important thing to signal in your ISP company name was that yes indeed you could use them to connect to the Internet.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 13:17:34 JST Evan Prodromou

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     you@hotphone.dialupworks

     nickname@jackedin.plug

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 28-Nov-2024 13:20:16 JST Evan Prodromou

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     It's funny that so many of us in 2024 still have personal email addresses like evan@igotafreeemailaddressfromgoogle.rad

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 02:05:08 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:
     • Pieter Lexis

     @lieter @mwl your reply is completely unrelated to my post.

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     Pieter Lexis (lieter@mastodon.lieter.nl)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 02:05:09 JST Pieter Lexis

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     • Michael Lucas :flan_set_fire:

     @evan The biggest issue with self-hosting (or running email) is the fact that the big free email providers tend to reject your mails. Even when you're adhering to all the standards they require. @mwl wrote a book about it. It is unfortunate that email is no longer a properly federated service...

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 06:04:36 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Pieter Lexis

     @lieter the point of my post is that in the early 90s people mostly used their ISP's email domain, and the domains were always about nets, connecting, the internet, and speed.

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     Pieter Lexis (lieter@mastodon.lieter.nl)'s status on Friday, 29-Nov-2024 06:04:38 JST Pieter Lexis

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     @evan Perhaps I should have prefaced with "apart from convince, there's another big reason folks don't do email themselves" or am I misunderstanding the point of your post?