Got an E-Mail from someone today who said we knew each other back in the Ottawa days. I don't remember the name but I don't normally expect to so I tried to respond.

Well, that was rejected since their E-Mail provider has decided that they need protection money from my ISP (whose SMTP servers I use). Uggh, I had the same problem several years ago with the same provider.

It is annoying that one of the few federated services (E-Mail) is hamstrung by it still usually being a hosted service (with few centralized hosts). This does re-affirm my belief that the only true path to a free internet is when we all run all the services we need on our personal infrastructure (yes, I mean "free as in speech" as opposed to "free as in beer", even though it will be effectively both). Given the sentiment these days, I suppose that means we are doomed.

In any case, I will try re-sending this tomorrow, since it might go through a different relay.

I am actually old enough to remember when software worked _for_ humans, not the other way around,
...Nights