> The free market competition means that spammers will come along and pay their protection money as well and there goes the service.
And the free market competition will ensure that those providers make stopping spammers (at the source -- signing up for an email service) their priority.
Spammers still use SES! Just the other day I found an SES IP blocked by Spamhaus. I'd argue smaller providers can be even better than AWS at preventing spammers from signing up -- they just need to play like smaller providers and actually vet/accept through referral/etc.
Smaller providers also must be much more careful about accepting spammers, so this helps keep them sharp -- and hopefully we get to a bigger smorgasbord of choices.
And the free market competition will ensure that those providers make stopping spammers (at the source -- signing up for an email service) their priority.
Spammers still use SES! Just the other day I found an SES IP blocked by Spamhaus. I'd argue smaller providers can be even better than AWS at preventing spammers from signing up -- they just need to play like smaller providers and actually vet/accept through referral/etc.
Smaller providers also must be much more careful about accepting spammers, so this helps keep them sharp -- and hopefully we get to a bigger smorgasbord of choices.
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