Is it anything like multi-threaded xz – in that you’re trading encoding speed for size?

It creates a cost for spammers. They have to have an account with a Telco, which isn’t free, which in a lot of countries comes with some sort of National ID to register. That’s the reason.

I pay $6USD/month for a cloud box that’s encrypted and has been running for years, no outages, no downtime.

For a large organization? Sure. For your family and friends? No.

There are lots of tutorials, and choosing a security-first OS is also wise… OpenBSD is my current favourite.

Honestly, building a mail server isn’t that hard if you aren’t afraid of the command line.

Is it bigotry to say that both sides have done some horrific shit, and that the current conflict is approaching 100 years, and was going on in different forms for centuries before that?

Is it bigotry to say there’s no solution as long as both sides have the goal of exterminating the other, and weaponizing the grief of their own groups?

The whole thing is the very definition of a clusterfuck, and I’m not a member of either group, so I normally shut the fuck up.