[GTALUG] Mailchannels Vancouver,BC

[Steve Petrie]

I use SiteGround (SG) https://world.siteground.com/ for website hosting 
http://aspetrie.net/ and email (POP3 / IMAP, SMTP).

While I have found that SG technical support has occasionally seemed to 
me, to be a little peremptory and almost arrogant, they do know their 
stuff, and SG's infrastructure has been rock solid and extremely 
quick-response in real time terms.

A while ago SG moved their services over to AWS and so far, SG service 
responsive time and reliability on AWS has been top notch.

My attitude in selecting computing infrastructure providers is DEAD 
SIMPLE: NOTHING BEATS RELIABILITY IN SERVICES, PRODUCTS AND PEOPLE.

So, I will quite happily suck up a little (perceived) arrogance from SG 
tech support, if the infrastructure being supported comes with 
rock-solid reliability and snappy performance.

Mind you, SG could be considered to be a PREMIUM PRICED SERVICE, but 
when I have investigated hosting service alternatives, any apparent cost 
savings seemed minimal, and besides, I prefer to spend my time working 
on interesting personal projects, instead of posspbly struggling with 
flaky glitchy cheap / free hosting infrastructure. I happily pay some 
serious money to SG, to enjoy never regretting my choice of SG.

Only problem I have had with SG email spam management, was being unable 
to use my Firefox browser to whitelist a particular email sender, whose 
messages were being listed by SG as potential spam. The SG support 
person showed me THEY could do the whitelisting, and then immediately 
closed my problem ticket.

SG email comes with excellent spam management. I spend a few seconds 
once a day, dealing with a handful of potential spam candidates reported 
by SG spam management. Only once, have I ever seen a legitimate incoming 
email listed as potential spam in an SG spam report.

Steve Petrie

-------- Original Message --------

  		SUBJECT:
  		[GTALUG] Mailchannels Vancouver,BC

  		DATE:
  		2023-07-25 06:09

  		FROM:
  		ac via talk <talk at gtalug.org>

  		TO:
  		talk at gtalug.org

Hi Everyone,

It seems that Mailchannels no longer manages abuse, spam, scams and
criminal activity and seems to have become a service provider to
criminal syndicates and other low life, nefarious and scum baggerry
(does scum baggerry have two G's and two R's?  or is scum baggery even
a word?)

They are not a "free" provider like @google (which now, recently and of
late again seems to be accepting abuse complaints at abuse at google.com)

Why is it that the more scummy an org becomes, the larger they seem to
grow? I am thinking of names like sendgrid, for example.

the more scummy the org becomes the larger they become?

Maybe I am just 'late' to see the connection and the "ESP's" already
know that, which I am now only noticing. The "ESP's" have this layer or
veneer of "decency" and we do no evil, yet, practically, they do evil
and it now seems that the more evil they are, while pretending to be
sheep, the larger they grow.

at the risk of seeming more ranty than shary, I also wonder why Google
decided to start managing abuse again via email? I was so surprised a
few weeks ago when abuse at google started working again... (does anyone
know why?)

In closing, has anyone else noticed the link between more scummy and
economic growth? And the 'better' the decency veneer, like good abuse
response (but no action) etc. etc. the larger the org grows?

Andre

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