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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by cortesoft on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:43PM (#13952071)
On the list of computing tasks I do every day, running my email server is WAY down there on the list of difficulty. Email servers are probably even easier than web servers.
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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by shmerl on Friday March 24, 2017 @05:09PM (#13952237)
Which doesn't necessarily mean you take necessary steps to seriously protect it. Or may be it means you are an expert and all that is trivial for you. But in general it's clearly not.
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Re:Google Talk Is Being Discontinued by cortesoft on Saturday March 25, 2017 @01:28PM (#13956639)
I guess my point is that you need to know your audience. Here on HN, running your own server is not a rare skill.
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