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[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago

"email never throttled you"

Someone forgot about the good ol' days of spam? Chainmails? Viruses? Here's an example of a classic virus,

YOU HAVE NOW RECEIVED THE UNIX VIRUS

This virus works on the honor system:

If you're running a variant of Unix or Linux, please forward thismessage to everyone you know and delete a bunch of your files at random.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I can assure you, your email is throttled. You just haven’t noticed.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

They used to make you pay $100/yr for an email address.

Not custom. Just an email address

this post was submitted on 29 May 2025

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