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Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Juror From RIAA Trial Speaks
* Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released
* Yahoo Exec Says "Enough DRM"
* Researchers Aim To "Read Minds" of PC Users
* Microsoft Releases IIS FastCGI Module
* iPhone, iPod Touch 1.1.1 Firmwares Jailbroken
* Pluto Probe Makes Discoveries at Jupiter
* Hacking the Presidential Election
* A Google Blunder- the Sad Story of Urchin
* Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina Hired By Fox News
* A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions
* Linspire Releases Controversial Version 6.0
* Get Speed-Booting with an Open BIOS
* Fairly Realistic Flying Car Offered for 2009 Delivery
* High Performance Web Sites
* Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox
* Cracking Go
* New Phone Wants to be Your Personal Trainer
* Canonical Chases Deal to Ship Ubuntu Server OS
* Data Centers in Strange Places
* Admins Accuse Microsoft of Hotmail Cap
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| Juror From RIAA Trial Speaks |
| from the tell-us-what-you-really-think dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 09, @21:41 (Music) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/09/222211
|
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Damon Tog notes a Wired blog posting featuring [0]quotes from a juror who
took part in the [1]recent RIAA trial. Some excerpts: "She should have
settled out of court for a few thousand dollars... Spoofing? We're
thinking, "Oh my God, you got to be kidding."... She lied. There was no
defense. Her defense sucked... I think she thought a jury from Duluth
would be naive. We're not that stupid up here. I don't know what the f**k
she was thinking, to tell you the truth."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/09/222211
Links:
0. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/10/riaa-juror-we-w.html
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/04/2232211&tid=123
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| Linux Kernel v2.6.23 Released |
| from the worth-the-wait dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 09, @23:25 (Operating System|
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/0114243
|
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[0]diegocgteleline.es writes "After 3 months, Linus has [1]released Linux
2.6.23. This version includes the new and shiny CFS process scheduler, a
simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest 'Linux-on-Linux'
paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support, KVM smp guest support,
and variable process argument length. SLUB is now the default slab
allocator, there's SELinux protection for exploiting null dereferences
using mmap, XFS and ext4 improvements, PPP over L2TP support. Also the
'lumpy' reclaim algorithm, a userspace driver framework, the O_CLOEXEC
file descriptor flag, splice improvements, a new fallocate() syscall,
lock statistics, support for multiqueue network devices, various new
drivers, and many other minor features and fixes. See the [2]changelog
for details."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/0114243
Links:
0. http://diegocg.blogspot.com/
1. http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/9/241
2. http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_23
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| Yahoo Exec Says "Enough DRM" |
| from the content-is-not-context dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 10, @02:13 (Music) |
|
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/0129258
|
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bogess writes "Yahoo! Music General Manager Ian Rogers recently gave a
speech to some music executives about the future of the Internet music
business and promised his company will [0]not be involved in Digital
Rights Management anymore." Another straw in the wind: [1]Nine Inch Nails
has now followed [2]Radiohead in ridding themselves of the labels and
going independent.
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/0129258
Links:
0. http://www.fistfulayen.com/blog/?p=127
1. http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9793541-7.html?tag=more
2. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/01/164234&tid=141
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| Researchers Aim To "Read Minds" of PC Users |
| from the knew-you-were-going-to-say-that dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 10, @05:01 (Software) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/0143244
|
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[0]hhavensteincw writes "Scientists at Tufts University are researching
the use of [1]light aimed at the forehead to measure the stress, work
overload, or distraction a computer user may be feeling, as a way to
adjust the UI to adapt to a user's emotional state. The research combines
biomedical engineering and machine learning to adjust the UI. The
project, which requires users to wear a futuristic head band, uses light
to measure the flow of oxygenated blood to the brain that signals a
user's rising stress levels typically associated with increasingly
difficult tasks."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/0143244
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
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| Microsoft Releases IIS FastCGI Module |
| from the smells-like-coexistence dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Wednesday October 10, @07:55 (Microsoft) |
|
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1031210
|
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Marcy writes "Microsoft has just announced the [0]final release of the
IIS FastCGI module for IIS 5.1 (XP), 6 (2003), and 7 (2008). This FastCGI
module was built with collaboration from Zend, the creators of PHP, and
is intended to solve the [1]CGI on Windows problem." It's free as in
beer.
Discuss this story at:
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1031210
Links:
0. http://www.iis.net/php
1. http://kursdnkissd.blogspot.com/2006/10/php-on-iis-6.html
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| iPhone, iPod Touch 1.1.1 Firmwares Jailbroken |
| from the pat-yourselves-on-the-back dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 10, @08:40 (Handhelds) |
|
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1211240
|
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[0]vertigoCiel writes "Hackers Niacin and Dre have recently gained
[1]full read and write access to the filesystems of both the iPhone and
the iPod Touch. The Jailbreak exploits a vulnerability in Safari's TIFF
library to execute the necessary code when the specially crafted image is
loaded. Access can then be permanently sustained by modifying the fstab
file with [2]iPhuc"
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1211240
Links:
0. mailto:spamme@dlpart.com
1. http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/10/iphone-and-ipod-touch-v1-1-1-full-jailbreak-tested-confirmed/
2. http://code.google.com/p/iphuc/
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| Pluto Probe Makes Discoveries at Jupiter |
| from the only-wears-red-spot-on-special-occasions dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 10, @09:18 (Space) |
|
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1242205
|
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[0]Riding with Robots writes "No, it's not an accident due to a
metric-to-English-units error. In February, the New Horizons probe passed
through the Jupiter system on its way to Pluto, and we saw some
spectacular pictures. Now, the science teams have [1]published detailed
scientific results, along with new images and movies. The probe's
instruments saw clouds form from ammonia welling up from Jupiter's lower
atmosphere, and heat-induced lighting strikes in the polar regions, and
fresh eruptions on the volcanic moon Io. New Horizons also captured the
clearest images ever of the tenuous Jovian ring system, where scientists
spotted clumps of debris that may indicate a recent impact inside the
rings, or some more exotic phenomenon." I bet Neil DeGrasse Tyson will be
on 7 Discovery channel specials talking about these new discoveries
inside of the week. Hope he's nicer than he was to poor Pluto :)
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1242205
Links:
0. http://www.ridingwithrobots.org/
1. http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/100907.htm
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| Hacking the Presidential Election |
| from the supreme-court-picks-anyway-now dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 10, @10:00 (Politics) |
|
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1255218
|
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An anonymous reader writes "Security researchers at a recent summit
predicted [0]US voters will be targeted by web-based dirty tricks
campaigns as the 2008 election gets nearer. Spam, botnets and phishing
all provide good opportunities to mislead voters and attack rivals with
little risk of being caught, they say."
Discuss this story at:
http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1255218
Links:
0. http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn12754
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| A Google Blunder- the Sad Story of Urchin |
| from the but-analytics-is-free dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 10, @10:39 (Google) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1256244
|
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Anenome writes "Google has a track record of buying startups and
integrating them into its portfolio. But sometimes those [0]acquisitions
go terribly wrong, as Ars Technica argues has been the case with Google's
2005 purchase of web-analytics firm Urchin Software Corp. 'In the wake of
Google's purchase of the company, inquiring customers (including Ars
Technica) were told that support and updates would continue. Companies
that had purchased support contracts were expecting version 6 any day,
including Ars. What really happened is this: Google focused its attention
on Google Analytics, put all updates to Urchin's other products on the
back burner, and rolled out a skeleton support team. Everyone who forked
over for upgrades via a support contract never got them, even though
things weren't supposed to have changed. The support experience has been
awful. Since the acquisition, we have had two major issues with Urchin,
and neither issue was solved by Google's support team. In fact, with one
issue, we were helped up until the point it got difficult, and then the
help vanished. The support team literally just stopped responding.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1256244
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| Ex-HP CEO Carly Fiorina Hired By Fox News |
| from the definitely-a-downgrade dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 10, @11:17 (Media) |
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1419232
|
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neutrino38 writes "The International Herald Tribune reports that [0]Fox
News hired Carly Fiorina, ex-HP CEO. Such an interesting move will
certainly bring support to those who viewed her as the over-hyped CEO who
killed the original corporate engineering culture know as 'the HP way.'
The article, off course, does not elaborate on this aspect of things.
Slashdot has [1]previously reported her demise from HP and some comments
mentioned some HP employee dancing in the cubicles then."
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1419232
Links:
0. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/10/business/fox.php
1. http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/09/1352218&tid=173
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| A Brief History of Slashdot Part 2, Explosions |
| from the are-we-there-yet dept. |
| posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday October 10, @12:00 (Slashdot.org)|
|
http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1445216
|
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When last we left off, Slashdot had grown beyond my ability to maintain
it as a hobby, as well as beyond the simple DEC Alpha Multia 166 that had
served it so well for the first week or two, and then immediately buckled
under the traffic. Here in Part 2, we ride the wave of Slashdot's growth
from early '98 until whenever my wrists get tired enough that I stop
yakking until next week.
This story continues at:
http://meta.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1445216
Discuss this story at:
http://meta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1445216
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| Linspire Releases Controversial Version 6.0 |
| from the like-free-but-not dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 10, @12:41 (Linux Bu|
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1537237
|
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[0]christian.einfeldt writes "Today, [1]Linspire releases version 6.0,
its first new GNU/Linux distro in more than two years. With version 6.0,
Linspire is betting that its business model of including licenses for
proprietary software and formats such as Quicktime, Windows Media Player,
Flash, Real, and Microsoft OOXML will win enough market share among
mainstream Apple and Microsoft users to offset the backlash from
opponents of proprietary software and formats. Version 6.0 also includes
the highly controversial Microsoft patent coverage that has incited
wide-reaching negative press coverage in the Free Open Source Software
press, forums and blogosphere. But from Linspire's perspective, it's all
about those new GNU/Linux users. '"Today we continue the Linspire
tradition by offering the choice of a better overall experience for users
new to desktop Linux,'" said Larry Kettler, President and CEO of
Linspire, Inc. "Linspire 6.0 further bridges the gap between open source
and commercial software, combining the best from each into a single
easy-to-use, familiar and productive operating system."'"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1537237
Links:
0. mailto:einfeldt@digitaCHICAGOltippingpoint.commin
1. http://www.linspire.com/lindows_news_pressreleases_archives.php?id=225
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| Get Speed-Booting with an Open BIOS |
| from the speed-booting-next-up-for-olympic-sports dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 10, @13:23 (Hardware|
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1555202
|
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An anonymous reader writes to mention that IBM Developer Works has a
quick look at some of the different projects that are working on
[0]replacing proprietary BIOS systems with streamlined code that can load
a Linux kernel much faster. Most of the existing BIOS systems tend to
have a lot of legacy support built in for various things, and projects
like [1]LinuxBIOS and [2]OpenBIOS are working to trim the fat.
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1555202
Links:
0. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-bios.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01SpeedBooting
1. http://www.linuxbios.org/index.php/Welcome_to_LinuxBIOS
2. http://www.openbios.info/Welcome_to_OpenBIOS
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| Fairly Realistic Flying Car Offered for 2009 Delivery |
| from the promises-promises dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 10, @14:04 (Technolo|
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1611216
|
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An anonymous reader writes to tell us about yet another promise of a
flying car. The Register is reporting on the latest from Terrafugia Inc
called the "Transition" which is a [0]combination car and airplane that
runs on unleaded gas. The idea is that it's a car that you can drive to
the nearest airstrip and, with the touch of a button, convert to an
airplane, fly to an airstrip close to your goal, then convert back to a
car to reach your ultimate destination. Of course, how many times have we
been promised flying cars only to suffer in perpetual disappointment.
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1611216
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| High Performance Web Sites |
| from the heavy-duty-net dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 10, @14:45 (Book Reviews|
|
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1419247
|
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[0]Michael J. Ross writes "Every Internet user's impressions of a Web
site is greatly affected by how quickly that site's pages are presented
to the user, relative to their expectations ��� regardless of whether they
have a broadband or narrowband connection. Web developers often assume
that most page-loading performance problems originate on the back-end,
and thus the developers have little control over performance on the
front-end, i.e., directly in the visitor's browser. But Steve Souders,
head of site performance at Yahoo, argues otherwise in his book, High
Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Frontend Engineers." Read
on for the rest of Michael's review.
This story continues at:
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1419247
Discuss this story at:
http://books.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1419247
Links:
0. http://www.ross.ws/
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| Mozilla to Develop Mobile Firefox |
| from the practice-makes-perfect dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 10, @15:27 (Mozilla)|
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1845249
|
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[0]Kelson writes "Mozilla has announced a new initiative to [1]bring
Mozilla to the mobile web, including a fully functional mobile version of
Firefox (yes, with extensions). The focus will be part of [2]Mozilla 2,
the big revision coming after Gecko 1.9 and Firefox 3. [3]Minimo, the
previous attempt to port Mozilla to mobile platforms, is apparently dead,
but 'has already provided us with valuable information about how Gecko
operates in mobile environments, has helped us reduce footprint, and has
given us a platform for initial experimentation in user experience.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1845249
Links:
0. http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/
1. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/schrep/archives/2007/10/mozilla_and_mobile.html
2. http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2006/10/
3. http://www.mozilla.org/projects/minimo/
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| Cracking Go |
| from the brute-force-always-a-fun-solution dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 10, @16:10 (Supercom|
|
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1758244
|
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[0]prostoalex writes "IEEE Spectrum looks at [1]current trends in
artificial technology to crack the ancient Chinese game of [2]Go, which
theoretically has 10^60 potential endings. Is conquering the game via
exhaustive search of all possibilities possible? 'My gut feeling is that
with some optimization a machine that can search a trillion positions per
second would be enough to play Go at the very highest level. It would
then be cheaper to build the machine out of FPGAs (field-programmable
gate arrays) instead of the much more expensive and highly unwieldy
full-custom chips. That way, university students could easily take on the
challenge.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1758244
Links:
0. http://www.moskalyuk.com/blog
1. http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/oct07/5552
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(board_game)
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| New Phone Wants to be Your Personal Trainer |
| from the i-can-has-cheezburgerphone? dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 10, @16:52 (Communic|
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1822238
|
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[0]coondoggie writes to tell us that a new prototype "[1]Wellness Phone"
has been developed. Designed to help users with everything from staying
in shape to checking your breath, the new phone can measure things like
body fat, pulse, and even stress level through a series of questions.
"The companies are reportedly still testing some of the phone's more
advanced technology, including a function to keep track of meals and
calculate calorific intake, as well as a network capacity to let users
share data. The companies haven't said when nor how much they will sell
the phones. Plus it doesn't look like they be sold in the US anytime soon
either."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1822238
Links:
0. mailto:mcooney@nww.com
1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/20443
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| Canonical Chases Deal to Ship Ubuntu Server OS |
| from the customer-feedback-at-work dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 10, @17:31 (Linux Bu|
|
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1830233
|
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[0]Kurtz'sKompund writes "Canonical, the company that supports Ubuntu
Linux, is trying to work out a deal with hardware vendors such as Dell to
make [1]Ubuntu available pre-installed on servers. 'Canonical, despite
obviously supporting such a deal, had little to do with Dell's decision.
Dell said it was merited by customer demand. Likewise, the decision of
whether Ubuntu Server will ship pre-installed will be determined the same
way.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1830233
Links:
0. http://kurtz.vnunetblogs.com/
1. http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/operating-systems/nix/news/index.cfm?newsid=5559
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| Data Centers in Strange Places |
| from the where-is-my-underwater-data-center dept. |
| posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday October 10, @18:12 (Data Sto|
|
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/1746206
|
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[0]johannacw writes "Would you house a data center in a diamond mine or
an old chapel? These organizations did, with great success; many of these
facilities [1]offer the latest in cooling and energy technology, among
other advances. 'If you want an even more hardened environment for your
data, you might look at the aptly named InfoBunker in Boone, Iowa, about
an hour outside Des Moines. [...] The 65,000-square-foot, five-story site
is dug deep into the ground. No one gets in without passing though the
4.5-ton steel door and then a three-step process. A scanner uses radio
frequency to read the would-be entrant's skin as a biometric identifier.
He then needs to use a keycard and enter a code on the keypad. This
three-tier security is standard for high-level military installations,
McGinnis explains.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/1746206
Links:
0. http://www.computerworld.com/
1. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9041000
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| Admins Accuse Microsoft of Hotmail Cap |
| from the who-needs-more-than-10-friends dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 10, @19:05 (Spam) |
|
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/10/2228216
|
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kurmudgeon writes "The Register is fielding reader tips that Hotmail has
placed Draconian [0]limits on the number of Hotmail recipients who can
receive an email. The first 10 Hotmail addresses included in a mass email
go through just fine, according to these reports. But any additional
addresses are returned to sender with a message that reads: "552 Too many
recipients." (Microsoft denies it has placed any such restriction on the
number of senders.) This would appear to be a violation of [1]RFC 2821,
which states: "Rejection of messages (for excessive recipients) with
fewer than 100 RCPT commands is a violation of this specification."
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/10/10/2228216
Links:
0. http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/09/limits_on_hotmail/
1. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt
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