That's terrible.

Set up a MTA at another hosting service as a relay?

The ./ demographic has shifted drastically over the last 10 years.

Been doing it for 15 years. Never had a problem.

I agree with you that the fundamental problem is economics and the fact that there is incentive to spam.. however, I've had the same email address for 15 years and have had good luck with rbls, razor/pyzor, and spamassassin.

I've been running my own MTA for 15 years. Not on any whitelists. No problems.

Run your own MTA, problem solved.

After 20 years of programming, I'm tired of checking all the return values of all the functions I call. Is there a way we can agree that functions should never return an error? Is there ever a case where you want a function to return an error?

Typical Feinstein.

No, they're the developers I have to hand hold for hours at a time, and the ones whose code I have to fix because they're incompetent.

An IDE is quite literally the least important feature of a language.

What a joke.

Are you suggesting he intentionally neglected to add an SPF record just so he could make a big stink about getting blacklisted by spamhaus?

Hanlon's Razor.

The guy is utterly clueless.

And yet:

From your vast experience not working anywhere else but on an open floorplan, and your vast experience not being anybody else but yourself?

BSP? Why do vendors still insist on using that antiquated bullshit TLA? If your damn peripheral code isn't in the mainline tree, it probably sucks. Hooray for shoddy code developed by interns.

Wait, just about every SoC ARM kernel is built from a fork. Idiots.