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the '90s version of finding the hiring manager or boss on linkedin to try and get a job was connecting to the company's public smtp server with telnet, using th
by a-dub 4mo ago
the '90s version of finding the hiring manager or boss on linkedin to try and get a job was connecting to the company's public smtp server with telnet, using their name to probe different email address patterns with "rcpt to:" (those days the actual servers were often directly connected to the internet and would leak email address validity in how they would respond to rcpt to) and then sending them a nice email.
smtp grew up to be an antisocial curmudgeon. extended smtp starts with EHLO.
- endofreach 4mo ago> smtp grew up to be an antisocial curmudgeon. extended smtp starts with EHLO. email will become so unusable, next one will have to be HELNO i guess
- jolmg 4mo ago> smtp grew up to be an antisocial curmudgeon. extended smtp starts with EHLO. "EHLO" still sounds friendly. It just sounds like a different accent or something. Know someone that used to answer calls with a friendly "Jello?".