I agree. I've also noticed a significant uptick in "how do I sent a bajillion emails that my users have asked for using nothing but this VPS I have" style questions. The answer to that is usually:
Er, you can't. Or, you could but you won't last long. Best to outsource it to a specialist; they have the infrastructure to cope with having an IP address get blacklisted as evil.
The existing canonicals don't seem to address this case very well at all. The most applicable is this one:
How to send emails and avoid them being classified as spam?
But that really doesn't go into enough of the right details for these newsletter/statusing questions we've been getting. I did one recently where I tried to go into the details, but didn't go into enough details for a great canonical.