I don’t know how I’m still managing to email persons or Gmail hosted agencies. Having my own email host with an unconventional domain effectively destines my emails straight for the spam folder for not exclusively new Gmail contacts, but even that occasional existing correspondent, to my inexorable dismay.
On the one hand, we have the same liberty of email providers as thirty years prior. Yet the nauseating majority of users tends towards a Google hosted solution. Meanwhile, Google appears to exercise authoritarian measures towards profiles such as myself without precedence (I send no bulk emails nor ‘spammy’ content), without recourse I’ve not already taken, or any I’m aware of.
Despite all known strategies with the DNS and server configuration, should I initiate a correspondence to a new Gmail contact, the case is near certain Spam. Really, I’m not seeking special treatment, not preferential nor discriminatory.
Under the circumstances, postal or courier mail is the more reliable means to communicate, whatever the irony. But the day I’m compelled to cease emailing is the day you’ll not find me on the internet, email remaining one of the few P2P open protocols still in use, the whole flock tending to otherwise voluntarily forgo the open and distributed for the closed and centralized.
So then I struggle to assert email reception by alternate, awkward and hardly reliable means. Some people like myself are notoriously slow to reply. Some are potentially slow to even read the correspondence, my explicit request for the minimal receipt confirmation notwithstanding.
There’s no sure means to discern between the unwillingness, the forgetfulness, the procrastination, and the plain lack of reception in light of spam treatment.
Assuming the issue owes more to my self hosting rather than the particular domain (an assumption far from certain), I may have to transition to a more established third party solution, which certainly will not fall among the two-three major providers. Become that the case, and consider me as delirious as the moon.
And even so, I can’t help but suspect some manipulative infringement of liberty. For I absolutely fail to believe the Spam paradigm to be so bestially impotent at identifying an innocent private correspondence originating from an independently hosted domain. Are AI mechanisms not reliably performing calculations of one hundred times the complexity?
Who knows if I’ll not have to resort to sealed paper letters and postal cards in due time. However expensive, the postal service at least offers trackable delivery options, which I can’t say for basic email infrastructure liberated of artificial ecosystems. Total rubbish.
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