"SMTP has outlived its usefulness" (was: Forwarding services)
"SMTP has outlived its usefulness" (was: Forwarding services)
Posted Jan 18, 2026 23:59 UTC (Sun) by malmedal (subscriber, #56172)In reply to: "SMTP has outlived its usefulness" (was: Forwarding services) by pizza
Parent article: A note for MXroute users
I expect we will get yelled again for being off-topic, so to keep it short. This is the graph of median wages adjusted for inflation:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
The big spike in 2020 is an artifact of the lowest paid workers being fired during the pandemic while the highest paid where kept on the payroll.
Cherry-pickers who want to mislead are having a field day with exploiting this. But in reality the median US worker is better off now than ever before.
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