The other day I was replying to an email thread with a friend at his gmail account. It's an address I've mailed hundreds of times by now over the years. Seconds after sending, a bounce message appears in my inbox that looked like :
Date: 15 Jul 2023 02:27:23 -0000
From: (snipped from the bots)
To: (snipped from the bots)
Subject: failure noticeHi. This is the qmail-send program at s7g1.jwrd.net.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.(gmail address snipped):
142.250.115.27 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 550-5.7.1 [116.202.223.107 12] Our system has detected that this message is
550-5.7.1 likely unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of spam sent to Gmail,
550-5.7.1 this message has been blocked. Please visit
550-5.7.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=UnsolicitedMessageError
550 5.7.1 for more information. i9-20020a9d4a89000000b006b4489980ffsi474708otf.19 - gsmtp
This is of course nonsense as I was replying to a thread a few messages deep, but apparently, the gulag known as Google, the g00glag, is either too dumb to know when someone replies to an email or doesn't want people who run their own mail servers to send emails to their users. All in the name of "safety" of course. Just like how their friends molest your daughters to get on a plane or how they forced experimental drugs on you to buy groceries or go to the hospital or whatever.
So I shared the bounce message with Jacob and he came back with :
jfw : check out the buggy ad-hoc implementation of half of the WoT
jfw : (need to register your domain with a google account to play, ofc)
So I logged into an account I registered there in 2010 or something and clicked through their thing and updated my DNS record with their magic verification string and in the account they marked my domain as "verified". Then I sent a test mail to the same address I had registered my domain with and boom, same fucking bounce message.
So I clicked around their "tools" and there was no data in there. Then I looked at their help to see what no data in the tools meant and read :
Why are some or all of my dashboards empty? Why do I not see any data?
Most of the Postmaster Tools dashboards will only display data when there's a sizable daily volume of email traffic (up to the order of hundreds) coming from your Authentication Domains and/or certain other conditions, in place to prevent abuse.
You may see a "No data to display" error message on the IP and Domain reputation dashboards. This may happen when your reputation is too low to show a value. Learn how to improve your email delivery rate.
So even without verifying --by their own claims-- my domain should not have messages dropped on the floor. This is a domain which has been sending mails for going on 7 years now and never sending spam and being explicitly whitelisted by several gmail accounts. It'd be one thing to filter the messages to the spam folder, which would still not be the correct move, but at least then they'd be giving my friends a choice to receive the messages and move me to their inbox.
Artificial intelligence my foot, this is artificial stupidity. So what else can I do ? Well I opened a support constructive criticism ticket :
Let's put it in text.
Hey, you hipster morons.
I've verified my domain and you're still rejecting all my mails, including to this fucking account !!
This domain has never sent spam in its existence and you show me no fucking data about the domain, which your own shitty help page says is an indication that I don't send enough fucking mail to register.
This started when I replied to an email thread with a friend. What gives ?
Why are you trying to destroy the internet ?
The internet will have your pathetic socialist asses in the end of course, but why do you want all thinking people to hate(i) your guts so much they'd not piss down your throat if your guts were on fire ?
Unblock my domain asap and quit wasting time. Tick tock, there goes another block.
"We'll see what happens," but at least for the time being, if you sent me an email from inside the g00glag and didn't get a reply it's not because I didn't reply to you, it's because your provider is scum of the earth that think feel they'll get away with fucking with independent, thinking people. They might get happy meals for as long as central banks continue to scam with their digital currencies, but not a second longer. NOT. ONE. SECOND.
So do your part and bring that second closer to our present, will yee ? In the short-term, buy Bitcoin and hold it in an address that starts with a 1, get the fuck off google and don't look back. Come talk to me on IRC.
While I'm mildy pissed off, the sun is warm and bright outside the cave and we'll be pissing on them before we know it.. if they're lucky.
- You know that Eulora message of the day :
Most people love because they tried hating and found it requires too much effort.
Well, this didn't require too much effort and I still have lots of room for love ; creo que vale la pena. I suppose that's another upshot of having a blog : it's a space where you can exercise your hate in a productive way, much like a punching bag, y'know ? [^]