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Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 164

Well SHOW them why they're wrong. Hiding their information will make their resolve stronger.

It's pointless. The paragraph below is paraphrased from Jean-Paul Sartre's 1946 essay on anti-semitism, replacing 'antisemites' with QAnon cultists. See if it rings any bells for you.

"The [QAnon cultist] has chosen hate because hate is a faith; at the outset he has chosen to devalue words and reasons. How entirely at ease he feels as a result... Never believe that [Qanon cultists] are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The [QAnons] have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

Comment Re:Sounds like an ISP problem. (Score 1) 459

They behave differently. A client normally connects to it's local mail server or its ISP's mail server on port 25. Clients normally don't generally connect to port 25 on mail servers outside the ISP's network unless they're spamming, which is why ISPs have been limiting that kind of connection from home networks.

Comment Re:Yes office, (Score 1) 361

As it happens, I'm not actually a zoophiliac. Merely a vegan who finds it a bit twisted that we seem to consider it worse to let an animal have sex with you than it would be to kill it.

I used to mourn when I ate animals, so I switched to vegetables. Then I started mourning when I killed any form of life. It's all so beautiful, isn't it? I think you have insufficient compassion for vegetables. Simply because they are a more alien form of life than people or animals, you think it's moral to eat vegetables, but not to eat animals. Can you really justify that? I found I couldn't.

Then starvation kicked in, and I realized that the universe is more morally complicated than I had previously imagined. I love all life, and now I kill and eat many forms of it, appreciating its beauty while acknowledging there is also beauty in the predator. Plus bacon tastes really good.

Comment Re:PLEASE take linkedin.com SPF out of softfail mo (Score 1) 122

For big domains with multiple machines and customers who access the net in many different ways. Having an SPF record with "-all" is a guaranteed way to have your legitimate customer emails blocked at some point.

I don't see why, if it's correctly configured. The domain I run has hundreds of machines. There are bigger domains out there, but I don't see how they would be significantly different. "Having an SPF record with -all" simply means you're confident that you know what IP addresses your domain's outgoing mail mail will be sent from. Do you not think most organizations will know the IP addresses of their own outgoing MTAs? Is it so difficult to set up all of an organizations' mail clients so they ALWAYS relay mail through one of those servers?

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