So basically I'd have to buy my own rack space (not just my own space on, say, a shared web server) to ensure I don't pay for the misdeeds done by others on my rack. I should have known there was a catch!
It might be a bit - controversial - to say so but the second I read the OP I wished email providers had not gotten so "good" at flagging and filtering spam (I use the word "good" loosely because while I'm sure that compared to maybe 10 years they catch some bigger, more obvious miscreants now that otherwise would have basically flooded out email servers and inundated customers with spam) because they suck at it, the proof being moments exactly like what Dreamwidth is going through now with GMail.
I think the good get punished with the bad and that that level of strictness is unnecessary when that's what your email account's Spam folder is for, and every email account everywhere has one, so why not just concentrate their endeavors on getting better at filtering into it instead of basically knocking the knees out from under so many other legitimate website's functionality?
Your buddy's story kind of highlights what I mean - why not reroute newly suspected spam to the Spam folder instead of into The Big Black Void? Who does that help? If indeed the email server was taken over nefariously wouldn't it be better (for your buddy's email provider, in the long run, if not necessarily for other customers in the short run) if your buddy could see something was amiss by the strange emails getting sent from that address and be able to report the problem himself? An argument could be made that people don't check their Spam folders often or carefully enough to catch such things but I think the success rate that way would still be higher than zero, which is the success rate they'll have picking the Big Black Void over anyone's inbox.
Re: Oh, wow
It might be a bit - controversial - to say so but the second I read the OP I wished email providers had not gotten so "good" at flagging and filtering spam (I use the word "good" loosely because while I'm sure that compared to maybe 10 years they catch some bigger, more obvious miscreants now that otherwise would have basically flooded out email servers and inundated customers with spam) because they suck at it, the proof being moments exactly like what Dreamwidth is going through now with GMail.
I think the good get punished with the bad and that that level of strictness is unnecessary when that's what your email account's Spam folder is for, and every email account everywhere has one, so why not just concentrate their endeavors on getting better at filtering into it instead of basically knocking the knees out from under so many other legitimate website's functionality?
Your buddy's story kind of highlights what I mean - why not reroute newly suspected spam to the Spam folder instead of into The Big Black Void? Who does that help? If indeed the email server was taken over nefariously wouldn't it be better (for your buddy's email provider, in the long run, if not necessarily for other customers in the short run) if your buddy could see something was amiss by the strange emails getting sent from that address and be able to report the problem himself? An argument could be made that people don't check their Spam folders often or carefully enough to catch such things but I think the success rate that way would still be higher than zero, which is the success rate they'll have picking the Big Black Void over anyone's inbox.