Ken Yap wrote:
>
> >I would like to know exactly what is going on. I sus goofy and mate
> >are using me to spam AOL (considering the crap AOL have sent me over
> >the years, who cares, but the principle is what is important).
>
> Hmm, not a good idea to be blase about relaying spam whether you like
> AOL or not, you might get blacklisted and then you won't be able to
> deliver your mail to sites using RBL blocking.
Well I'm not blase about relaying, but am a bit concerned about the
arrogance of some of these self appointed, beligerant guardians. It is
about time they got off their high horse and realise that all they are
doing is fuelling an arms race to the benefit of a few big companies.
Linux has been taken over by the big and powerful and these guys are
at the best stupid dupes in enhancing the money grab by these big
bastards. All they are doing is enforcing an arms race that you have
to upgrade every bloody week, because if you don't we will black list
you. (Yep, my version of sendmail is too old for all the www guides
people sent me {:-( = another upgrade).
Frankly, linux hasn't improved my productivity. Almost everytime I
reach a critical point in some work I'm doing for a client, there is
some reason I have to upgrade some app on linux to fix some emergency
that has popped up.
So now, after having been through the sendmail book a number of times
for various reasons and finding each time that it is a frustrating
experience because first of all you have to guess the jargon to use
the index, then you find out that much of it is not indexed, then the
explanation is in the high stratosphere, and then there are no
examples, and when you do get examples, they are either so bloody
simple, outdated or irrelevant to the real world.
(BTW - have O'Reilly authors actually started to give real work
examples in their books in the last few years?)
(and just to make it clear - I do not want to hear about qmail, etc -
same problems)
And this emergency I have some self appointed thought police standing
over me with the threat of blacklisting.
Has anyone pointed out to these people just exactly what they are
doing?
Do they give a fuck?
Or are they on an ego and power trip to their own stimulation?
Instead of being screwed by Bill Gates, I've now got a whole raft of
them queueing up for my money ably assisted by the thought police. A
few of you need to read about the frog in slowly warming water
experiment to understand this (Basically it thought everything was
great until it was cooked).
At least with Microsoft, I haven't been forced to upgrade my operating
system for 10 years and it would have been less expensive to do all
woa.com.au stuff on OS/2.
BTW - thanks for the tests and url's.
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