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by overbroad 14y ago
Where did I claim it's not a closed ecosystem? It's starts closed and it is opened by invitation. Yep. That is exactly how it works. If you cannot understand that approach, then that just means it's not how you think. It does not mean th
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by overbroad 14y ago
"focus on applications instead of refining the tool" It's true. How many times have we seen someone share their reimplementation of a FORTH like interpreter? Far fewer times than we've seen people write and share FORTH applications. Why
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by overbroad 14y ago
Maybe Apple is the new Microsoft, not Google? Maybe Apple does not have as many potential competitors i.e. virtually anyone selling ad space, to raise complaints?
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by overbroad 14y ago
How about using SDL? There are some LISP's that enable easy interfaces to any C library.
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by overbroad 14y ago
Spammers destroyed an open email system that relies on a centrally controlled DNS. Probably because they were among the only ones who learned how email works. We never made the effort to teach the population at large, preferring instead t
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by overbroad 14y ago
What they're doing is making a very dodgey assumption. They might stop a few hundred potential spammers but they also stop millions of people who could potentially be using email more effiently and reliably (and Spam Free) by sending and/o
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by overbroad 14y ago
"cargo-cult". That's the term I was looking for. Monkey see, monkey do. Code monkey mimicry. If thinking for yourself is "arrogance", then we need more "arrogant" people involved in web design. It's not the "API" that is the method of pr
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by overbroad 14y ago
Ha. I've had the same thoughts many times. Never thought anyone else felt this way. At some stage, people started to get weird ideas about URL schemes (aka "API's") like it's some sort of marketing thing. API keys. WTF? Imagine if earl
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by overbroad 14y ago
Gotta love that Spamhaus logic. Spammers use cheap dynamic IP's therefore anyone with a cheap dynamic IP that sends an email is a spammer. Is it cheaper for you to get a static IP from a VPS than from your ISP?
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by overbroad 14y ago
If Alice and Bob agree to run their own SMTP daemons, closed to the public and not necessarily on port 25, and they each agree to put the other on their "whitelist", how is this functionally different from the current third party controlled
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by overbroad 14y ago
I wish we could get these anti-spam zealots to apply the same effort to stopping junk postal mail. The history of direct mail is interesting and perhaps instructive. It has been kept alive by those who do the delivery (cf. those who do th
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by overbroad 14y ago
While I understand your sentiment, I respectfully disagree that it does not matter if it's a smart idea. Because if it is not a smart idea then that means we can do better. One of the projects I'm working on solves the "closed ecosystem"
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by overbroad 14y ago
I guess the civil system (private lawsuits) is failing to protect intellectual property interests? Who holds those interests? The taxpayer? The government? Business entities? Why not give the grants to businesses who are trying to prote
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by overbroad 14y ago
Why Mark Pincus failed? Or did he? How much did he make from the Zynga "failure"?
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by overbroad 14y ago
An SMTP daemon will try to send the message a certain number of times, at a certain interval, then, eventually, it will stop ("bounce"). You can configure these settings if you run your own SMTP service.
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by overbroad 14y ago
Assuming your ISP is not blocking port 25 and your internet address is not on some blacklist you can send mail directly from your machine. No need to use intermediary SMTP servers. Is it possible that someone people might like to use their
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by overbroad 14y ago
Do you think that is a smart idea? To black list entire netblocks? I mean, can we assume that every person using EC2 for email is sending spam? It would seem to degrade the usefulness of EC2 for anyone wanting to run their own mailserver.