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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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Posted Nov 15, 2006 0:38 UTC (Wed) by dark (✭ supporter ✭, #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 jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246) [Link]

Right, but typically that spam comes from zombied Windows PCs.