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Blobists remind me of open relay postmasters for some reason.
Blobists remind me of open relay postmasters for some reason.
Posted Nov 14, 2006 18:31 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)Parent article: Resisting the binary blob
1998: "I'm tired of all you anti-spam mail admins saying I should shut down my open SMTP relay. I just want mail to work -- can't you understand that?"
2006: "I'm tired of all you anti-blob kernel hackers breaking support for proprietary stuff in kernel space. I just want Linux to work -- can't you understand that?"
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Blobists remind me of open relay postmasters for some reason.
Posted Nov 15, 2006 0:38 UTC (Wed) by dark (subscriber, #8483) [Link]
And in 2006, we have more spam than ever, and mail doesn't work anymore.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say there :)
Blobists remind me of open relay postmasters for some reason.
Posted Nov 15, 2006 16:42 UTC (Wed) by im14u2c (subscriber, #5246) [Link]
Right, but typically that spam comes from zombied Windows PCs.