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Re:Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think by chrischen on Friday May 26, 2017 @10:07PM (#14428551)
Email also isn't very popular in China. I'd surmise it has something to do with the popularity of instant messaging in the new generation internet users.
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Re:Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think by Bakary on Friday May 26, 2017 @10:23PM (#14428614)
Using email feels cumbersome compared to WeChat. Of course, you pay the price of having a single app do everything but most people don't even register that as a potential threat.
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Re:Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think by contingencies on Friday May 26, 2017 @10:27PM (#14428630)
Yes. Also the fact that half of the west's trigger-happy sysadmins banned all Chinese IP addresses from virtually any cross-border SMTP activity because 'spam'.
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Re:Facebook's tentacles reach further than people think by a2decrow on Saturday May 27, 2017 @03:23AM (#14429262)
Not sure if you're sarcastic, but that's literally all I get from there. Spam and brute force attempts.

The IP addresses fail2ban unbans are banned again 2 to 5 minutes later.

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