> It'd be strange for them (or a third-party customer management service) bother blacklisting Fastmail
If it's not a blacklist, I think it'd be even stranger for it to be a whitelist, precisely for the reasons you mentioned. mzkply's comment makes me think that it might have to do with Fastmail's email aliases, which is the closest thing they have that's like Mailinator (an email provider that is frequently blacklisted for signups), but I don't think it's similar enough that this makes sense.
I agree with everything you said about NYT's incentives, but that leaves the question raised by this experience.
I opened up a chat with NYT to ask about it, but I was left waiting for an agent there for an hour before I decided to just close the chat.
If it's not a blacklist, I think it'd be even stranger for it to be a whitelist, precisely for the reasons you mentioned. mzkply's comment makes me think that it might have to do with Fastmail's email aliases, which is the closest thing they have that's like Mailinator (an email provider that is frequently blacklisted for signups), but I don't think it's similar enough that this makes sense.
I agree with everything you said about NYT's incentives, but that leaves the question raised by this experience.
I opened up a chat with NYT to ask about it, but I was left waiting for an agent there for an hour before I decided to just close the chat.