Carsten Schiefner wrote on 01/09/2025 15:34:
On 01.09.2025 16:02, Sulev-Madis Silber via ripe-atlas wrote:
it boggles my mind that ripe ncc doesn't run it's own infra and relies on spam company to forward them. i expect more mails end up in actual spam folder due them coming via so called email marketing provider [...]
Sulev-Madis's point of view gets my full sympathy, if it's not even already a "+1".
I do understand the exasperation that happens when they see the RIPE NCC outsourcing its email to some third party or another, but they have good reasons for doing this:
https://labs.ripe.net/author/fergalc/enhancing-email-delivery-at-the-ripe-nc...
I.e. the NCC has a choice about whether to spend a good deal of money running an in-house mail transport service, or else outsource mail transport for very little cost, and spend money doing the job that they were asked to do by the community. SMTP delivery is hard above a certain threshold of emails, so I'd argue that we need to cut them some slack on this one. Incidentally, the IETF also outsources its smtp email delivery. Nick