After this recent bullshit with AOL (who, after I setup RDNS then told me I needed to establish a "feedback loop" if I wanted unblocked) I have offically decided I will stop using e-mail alltogether. Fuck this shit, I dont have time for it any longer. Just because someone else created a standard and got a few other people to delcare it to be a good idea dosent mean that it is.
The protocols that make up what most people call "e-mail" are outdated, insecure and useless. Its been around since the internet began as a US FedGov communications project, back when the people who used it could be trusted to display a little common sense (except for Digital Equiptment Corporation, which is credited with sending the very first SPAM in the history of mankind) and act with a small amount of intelligence. Those days are clearly gone and gone quite long ago.
This last month, my mail server relayed about one and a half million inbound messages, but it sent less than two thousand. That means that out of half a million messages in, only 2 thousand (or 0.000133...%) of messages were legit and actually needed a response. And thats if we assume that every outbound message was actually in response to a legit message, which it wasnt, alot of the messages we generated by scripts or stuff that I or others composed from scratch and sent to people. The rest was spam. Utter feces that had no use and was not deserving of the resources expended to deal with, proess, filter and delete it.
I have ordered my designer to create a device that can best be described as a ticket system which will be the new and only means of contacting me. There will be visual confirmation, accounts, management consoles and so on. He said he'll have it done by next weekend. I love Argentina coders, they are so fast, so eagar to please... and work so cheap.
Within 30 days, I will discontinue all e-mail services on all of my servers including for my hosting customers. I will replace it with a user account on my newly-developed ticket system, whicch thier website visitors can login to and and check for new messages. Anyone that dosent like it is free to go fuck themselves because I dont care how many people bitch about it I am not changing my mind.
For those too stubborn to join the 21st century and communicate with me on my level, i.e. companies that I have to still be able to get e-mail from like my banks, I'll keep a couple of gmail accounts around.
For once, I'm gonna be on the cutting edge of technology. I'll be offering the worlds very first 100% guranteed spam-free hosting ever. A life without spam and bullshit, here I come! I cant fucking wait.
Again, I would like to hand out an extra big, extra special, fuck you to AOL for ruining the internet. Al Gore may have invented the internet, but AOL will be credited for ruining it.
FUCK AOL!
Oh yes, and AOL: I'm going to tell all of my website visitors to call these numbers when they want to know why they cant send us e-mail.
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http://postmaster.info.aol.com/contact/index.html
Godbye e-mail, you will not be missed.
Oh, I am so angry right now that those around me are seriously at risk for bodily injury.