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Re:SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite by 1oooqooq on Saturday April 20, 2024 @11:22AM (#40098047)
Yahoo had good tech, sadly well hidden thanks to a bad board and execs. it was still doing bleeding edge freebsd, like netflix just found out and can't stop talking about lately.

last good ceo was bartz, but she lost for carl Icahn who wanted to destroy Yahoo so his shares on MS and google ad business would go up. then he managed to get mayer to go in and do his bidding from the inside and the rest is history.

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Re:SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite by njsg on Saturday April 20, 2024 @03:43PM (#40100372)
That makes me wonder, regarding AOL/Yahoo/Verizon/... what's the story behind "8 BITMIME" and their mail server's broken 8-bit handling ([0],[1])? Did they just get server software with bugs in one of the acquisitions/mergers? Or is it some incompatibility or configuration issue comparable to the 500-mile e-mail story [2]?

(Note: I had no idea they hadn't fixed it yet (at least the utf8 part)... I tested just now, and, sure, it's still broken... currently it is operating in "State 2".)

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Jorgk/8-bit_bytes_and_e-mail_c... [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435903 [2] https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

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Re:SeaMonkey All-in-One Internet Application Suite by 1oooqooq on Sunday April 21, 2024 @03:42AM (#40103887)
that actually matches the timeline i described. it's already on mayer and Icahn destroying it. i think only senior left on mail was responsible for spam and nothing else.
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