They’re likely not fake; odds are there are loads of people who will buy this product and never have an issue. The problem is that some small percentage will experience catastrophic loss, and who wants to roll those dice?

In the US we call them “tea candles” and I only now realized why.

I’ve been running my own mail server since ~2002. For many years I was using qmail, of all things, on a home ISP connection. I wrote a semi-popular guide on adding spamassassin support to qmail. I was a true believer!

When hosting email from consumer internet became untenable, I migrated to digitalocean and Mail-in-a-box. To be honest, it’s worth the $15 to have a 100% always-on device hosting the email. I host lots of other stuff at home and having email be a separate thing makes it much easier.

I’ve been running my own mail server using Mail-in-a-box on a digitalocean VPS for about 10 years. I also pay for an external SMTP relay service because I still get randomly blocked by Google/Microsoft/whatever just by virtue of having a digitalocean IP.

Total cost is $15/mo for the VPS and $50/yr for the relay service.

Would beeper give me access to iMessage without having an iDevice?

Look everyone! It’s another opportunity to block an asshole!

The short story in the form of a wiki entry MMAcevedo seems apropos to this conversation, especially the fictional uploader’s opinions on it:

Acevedo indicated that being uploaded had been the greatest mistake of his life

Oh, I think you already know.

Unless you’re printing in color every day, you are absolutely better off getting a black & white laser and having the color prints done at a print shop.