[GTALUG] Aggressive and Underhanded?

[ac]

Hey Everyone,

I was wondering whether I am the only one noticing that Google and
Microsoft has become increasingly aggressive and underhanded in their
email operations?

I noticed the trend a few years ago already and have been watching for
new patterns and collecting millions upon millions of spam emails

Microsoft and Google is dominating email relay and their market share
in the geo areas where they dominate, has steadily increased each year.

recently there has been more changes

Both monopolies are now using more and more complex email headers.

Both Microsoft and Google have become more aggressive, more dominating
and seemingly less ethical in their behaviors.

Google has apparently moved their back end mail servers to private ipv6
ranges and are pumping emails out, spam and ham, through ipv4. Google
has also become non responsive to abuse complaints. Microsoft also now
uses ipv6 but at least uses public ipv6, with abuse information but is
also 'allowing' spam and abuse to be relayed in much higher numbers. 

Bot of these (Microsoft and Google) are now relaying for criminals,
normal spam, pump end dump rubbish as well as ham, from the same public
ipv4 numbers.

The result of this new aggressive push is declining quality of email
service for smaller providers - as ham is marked as spam more
frequently.

They  (Microsoft and Google) are using their sheer size to bully out
more market share and if the trend continues there will be no more
'independent' email providers in the near future as more and more
providers are forced to run their email services through one of the two
monopolies. 

Anyone else noticed the more aggressive system designs, more aggressive
non responsiveness to abuse complaints and other non ethical behaviors?
And, is there anything that general society can even do?

If there are only two email providers in the future, how long will it
take before there is just one?

Andre