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1. Free Software Foundation (fsf@hostux.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Apr-2022 00:31:49 UTC Free Software Foundation

   Have you ever considered the work that goes into sending an email to @gnu.org? The FSF tech team makes sure millions of emails get delivered each year, and has taken the time to explain the road your email travels in freedom. http://u.fsf.org/3gz

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Apr-2022 00:43:11 UTC Bernie

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     @fsf I worked on the FSF / GNU email routing system back in 2011, and it was already dauntingly complex. Whenever one of those exim instances died or slowed down, email would start to pile up in the queue of the sender, risking to fill the disk or start backscattering.

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Apr-2022 00:44:29 UTC Bernie

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     @fsf Remote delivery was also a tricky business, with large email providers throttling or blocking us entirely. We were too large of a mailserver for default rate limits, but still too small for sysadmins to whitelist us preemptively like they'd do for gmail.com.