Date: 10,000 BCE
Problem: crops failed
Diagnosis: crop gods angry with you
Plan: propitiate gods, hope for best
Date: 1999
Problem: emails missing
Diagnosis: DNS
Plan: fix DNS
Date: 2025
Problem: emails missing
Diagnosis: email reputation gods angry with you
Plan: propitiate gods, hope for best
@avdi If I make DNS God then I can have a consistent civilization timeline
@avdi as one who runs a mail server, I hate how accurate this is
@avdi
Unfortunately, lord DMARC is at war with lady DKIM, and the DNS battlefield is filled with inappropriate SPF shenanigans.
@avdi I run my own email, but I mostly share my @gmail.com because I have had my _replies_ trapped in overly-aggressive (but well-meaning) mail server not under my control, and that is almost impossible to diagnose.
I also have the belief that Google is more reliable than my setup. I don't think I've ever missed a mail, but the "more important" something is, the less likely I am to use the mail I really control.
I also don't have the most "professional" domain name, but I'm not going to pay for _another_ domain I barely use.