Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)(web.mit.edu)

1065 points by dvrp 3 years ago | 182 comments

Trey Harris's classic sysadmin story about a statistics department that could not send email farther than about 500 miles, traced to a sendmail misconfiguration and timeouts.

SCCS roach motel(tuhs.org)

48 points by rdpintqogeogsaa 1 year ago | 11 comments

Apple Rhapsody Report (1997)(uvm.edu)

18 points by Lammy 1 year ago | 8 comments

Why Gopher in 2026?(gopher.muffinlabs.com)

108 points by andsoitis 1 day ago | 59 comments

A personal phlog entry on SDF's Gopher space, viewed through a web proxy, reflecting on why someone would use Gopher in 2026 and on simpler, less commercial tech.

Have Taken Up Farming(dylan.gr)

136 points by djnaraps 9 months ago | 87 comments

No! Repent! From! Harlan! (1998)(harlanellison.com)

17 points by Michelangelo11 1 year ago | 3 comments

Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)(web.mit.edu)

1065 points by dvrp 3 years ago | 182 comments

Trey Harris's classic sysadmin story about a statistics department that could not send email farther than about 500 miles, traced to a sendmail misconfiguration and timeouts.

Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses(shkspr.mobi)

329 points by m_km 6 months ago | 88 comments

Blog post by Terence Eden describing how a unique email address he gave BrowserStack ended up with a third party via Apollo.io, implying a leak.

FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account(daedal.io)

354 points by pabs3 6 months ago | 203 comments

A Mastodon post by Thom Zane asking for a human contact on Google's Gmail team to report a spammer who sent 10,000+ spam emails via Gmail.

S3 is files, but not a filesystem(calpaterson.com)

535 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 400 comments

Cal Paterson's essay on why Amazon S3 stores files but isn't a filesystem, discussing deep modules, mismatched interfaces, and why SAP is painful.

Man spends entire career mastering crappy codebase(taylor.town)

683 points by surprisetalk 3 years ago | 462 comments

A satirical blog post on taylor.town about a fictional developer who spent 35 years in a legacy medical software codebase and retires having grasped 4% of it.

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado(arstechnica.com)

825 points by JaimeThompson 1 year ago | 332 comments

Ars Technica article reporting that the FBI raided the home of an Indiana University computer scientist whose profile was quietly removed and who has gone silent.