Re: BBS sysops and retro nerds: seeking

On 07 Nov 22  05:16:19, Tengri Temujin said the following to Atreyu:

> If you are concerned about these things then why not just get a 
> static
> IP or
> rent a VM/VPS from a service like Ovh.ca and host your email system?
TT> 
TT> The benefit is that someone else is already doing all the 
TT> administrative
TT> work. Why repeat all that work if I can just pay someone else to do 
TT> it?

If you pay another person to do this for you, you're back to the "trust 

factor" you mentioned before. You are placing your trust in them that 
they
will host it correctly, not inexplicably crash, not snoop through your 
mail. 
You're back to the same concern you would have with a typical email 
provider.

The old saying - When you want something done right, you do it 
yourself... The
real solution to your request is to host everything on a private 
cloud-hosted
server or your own equipment at home via. a static-IP address.

Thats what I did here, 17 years ago... for the same concerns you have.

Atreyu