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  • Differences bubble up between PepsiCo and Coca-Cola on diversity programs

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  • Gmail alternative: good idea to use personal domain+hosting?

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  • stored in my hosting..

    This, specifically, is the issue people are warning you about. Yes, your hosting account from Bluehost has the ability to handle email, but it's not great. It's really there just so the server can send admin emails and such, not support a full email architecture.

    Simplifying - part of the way spam is detected by the servers that receive an email is to check the IP address from where it came from against a list of IP addresses known to deliver spam. If it's coming from a spam IP, the message is likely spam, so they either put it in the recipient's spam folder or fail to deliver it entirely.

    Now, you may think you don't need to be worried because you're an upstanding web citizen and would never send out spam messages. However, your hosting is on a shared server, with anywhere from a handful to dozens and dozens of not hundreds of other hosting accounts, all sharing the same IP address, and they have this email ability as well. If any one of them, intentionally or unintentionally, sends out a bunch of spam messages and gets your IP address flagged, the entire server loses its reputation for some period of time. Most of the time, this is caused by people not keeping their website security up to date and their site getting infected. The malicious code then goes and sends out as many spam emails as it can before the hosting company shuts things down.

    Unfortunately, you end up having very little control over the situation.

    • You can ask your hosting provider to do something about your malicious/ incompetent neighbor, but they may or may not.
    • You can ask to be moved to a new server, but that's just playing neighbor roulette.
    • If you are able to get your hosting provider to do something about your neighbor, the other email servers in the world are still going to distrust receiving emails from your IP address for some period of time. You can make requests to try and have your IP address unflagged, that they may or may not do.
    • Even if you do all the leg work of getting your server unflagged, one of your stupid neighbors could immediately get the server flagged again.

    So, as others have said - yes, you can use your hosting account as your email server. But considering it's only a few bucks a month to have a dedicated email service handle it, it's generally not worth the hassle and headache.

  • Trump Accuses Federal Workers of ‘Playing Golf’ After He Spent the Last Three Weekdays at His Golf Courses

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  • Which in itself is dumb because Trump was president that first covid year (2020), which was the worst of it!

  • More than 10 dead in Kentucky flooding with number expected to increase

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  • Whereas Phoenix is looking at temps in the upper 80s on the 10 day forecast.

  • Elon Musk: Austerity for Thee but Not for Me

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  • Which then allows corporations to come in and buy up everything for pennies nickels on the dollar. They're going to pick the US carcass clean.

  • Music genres

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  • Exactly! I mean, come on... completing 4'33" in 3'43" is just preposterous.

  • Music genres

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  • Rogan rule

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  • She-Wee for the win!

  • What's something that's taken for granted that occasionally makes you think, wait wtf?

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  • And because everyone's glob of neurons is independent from each other, we have no way of conclusively determining if everyone's glob interprets things the same way.

  • Trump May Not Want to Share Power With His Own Party’s Congress

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  • They're his future brown shirts red hats.

  • DOGE follows longtime Musk pattern — and turns attention to Social Security Administration

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  • "You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up. Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one. And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life! It's not about food. It's about keeping those ants in line."

  • Weird how counterintuitive some stimulant effects are when you have ADHD

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  • Luckily I realized pretty quickly and didn't waste too much money on coke.

  • Me at my library job as the only one who will weed books

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  • How long does a book have to go without being checked out to be purged?

  • A new government memo feels like it’s straight out of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’

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  • Gotta be the rwhite color...

  • Trump White House rescinds order freezing federal grants after widespread confusion

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  • Trump White House rescinds order freezing federal grants after widespread confusion

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  • Trump White House rescinds order freezing federal grants after widespread confusion

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  • I understand and agree with the general concept of a case being moot when the underlying situation has already been resolved, but sometimes I really wish there was a way for proceedings like this to continue so we actually get rulings.

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    Trump Administration leaked memo banning observance of MLK Day, Pride, and Holocaust Rememberance Day as part of crack down on DEI

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  • This just means it'll be like Washington's Birthday or Labor Day - pretty much ignored.

  • Trump administration offering buyouts to nearly all federal workers

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  • It's a buyout.

    White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told NBC in a statement that if federal workers “don’t want to work in the office and contribute to making America great again, then they are free to choose a different line of work, and the Trump Administration will provide a very generous payout of 8 months.”

    To accept the buyout, federal employees simply have to reply to the email with the word “Resign,” the emails reportedly instruct.