Keeping the reputation clean is the real issue. Google and MS handle most of the email traffic. If you get blacklisted for any reason, it’s a black hole to fix. And the reason may not be relevant; could just be your host’s IP allocation is blocked.
That is why we should stop relying on email as a login or account recovery method and move to a fully passkey-based system (or something similar), where providing an email address becomes optional rather than a requirement for registration.
At the same time, direct communications between individuals or businesses, especially those that still rely on legacy, letter-like mechanisms, should also evolve. We need a new standard, similar in spirit to what Signal has achieved for instant messaging, but designed for more formal and authenticated communications.
Keeping the reputation clean is the real issue. Google and MS handle most of the email traffic. If you get blacklisted for any reason, it’s a black hole to fix. And the reason may not be relevant; could just be your host’s IP allocation is blocked.
That is why we should stop relying on email as a login or account recovery method and move to a fully passkey-based system (or something similar), where providing an email address becomes optional rather than a requirement for registration.
At the same time, direct communications between individuals or businesses, especially those that still rely on legacy, letter-like mechanisms, should also evolve. We need a new standard, similar in spirit to what Signal has achieved for instant messaging, but designed for more formal and authenticated communications.