i wonder if anyone who has ever operated an smtp or irc server could have predicted any of the problems with the fediverse going on right now

i guess we'll just never know

@atax1a look it's fine, if someone sends you spam you can just block the email address they sent it from. Or you can just block their whole server. And if you don't like it you can just run your own mail server.

There's no way that spam will be a problem.

@bencurthoys at least when we run our own mailserver, other mailservers having a fight over who can send the other email, doesn't flood my queues. :)