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1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2017 11:22:28 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

   port 25 was the real net neutrality fight and we lost it long ago. now we merely scramble to take back ground we previously ceded.

   1. malte (malte@anticapitalist.party)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2017 14:18:38 EST malte

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      @djsundog This is an excellent take!

      For the people not familiar with the meaning of "port 25": This is the port that mailservers communicate over (like webservers and browsers use 80 and 443). Because the mail protocol SMTP was never designed nor improved to inhibit exploitation like spam or impersonation, it was (and is) very easy to abuse, and spammers use hijacked home routers, pcs, and other devices to try to deliver spam...

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