> On Jan 30, 2025, at 13:39, Zacchaeus <zacc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Felix Lechner <felix.lech...@lease-up.com> writes: > >> Hi Zacchaeus, >> >>> On Thu, Jan 30 2025, Ricardo Wurmus wrote: >>> >>> the Guix project is not operating the GNU list servers >> >> The Guix project could operate an authenticated mail relay for members >> like Debian does, but I do not recommend it. >> >> Kind regards >> Felix > > Ricardo makes a good point. I should probably send this specific > complaint to a different gnu.org email (and I will, later). I suppose > I'd be fine using a Guix relay to contribute to Guix, but I can't help > set that up because, again, anything I set up would be from residential > addresses that are ineligable for rDNS. As for what I wanted from > guix-devel, I was wondering how I might submit my most recent patch > (adds full Syncthing configuration support) to Guix. Based on this > conversation, I'm just going to expose my fork of Guix on my website, > continue rebasing on master, stick to the irc, and hope someone with > commit access applies my contributions... > > My current long-term project is a Guix-powered box that replaces > someone's router and operates as backups, web-hosting, automatic DNS > updates, and email for you and your friends, such that two boxes can act > as full backup relays for eachother. Think FreedomBox+DDNS+friends(+a > few other details). Hence, I am opposed to rDNS and banning residential > IP's on principle. > > > Thanks again for the responses! > -Zacchae > > > PS. I know this maybe isn't the place to complain, but I'm still in > shock. Brennan's email earlier was neither TLS encrypted nor DKIM > signed, and came from an Amazon IP, but my email with TLS, SPF, DKIM, > and DMARC get's rejected because my IP address is "residential"?
Due to botnets, an email originating at a residential IP address is by far the strongest signal for spam that exists. Every mailing list would be unusable if it didn’t block residential IPs. > GNU's > not supposed to hate humans. It doesn’t. > I shouldn't need to pay some host to be an > equal member on the internet. I get that spam is a valid concern, and > I'm willing to jump through some hoops to prove personhood, but that > shouldn't involve giving up any digital autonomy. It would be nice if we lived in such a world, but when ideology conflicts with reality, reality has to win. There’s nothing anybody here can do about that.
