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Where's the blog post? I just see an ad for a book.
Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices on Monday May 06, 2024 @02:00PM (#40277505)
I just knew someone would reply with a comment like this but foolishly I decided not to get ahead of it.

Sure, there used to be more. Sure, there are obviously better places to be as a Jew.

But ... I replied to the comment that said "there are no Jews in Iran" . There are Jews living in Iran. That's it.

Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities on Friday February 16, 2024 @02:15PM (#39401648)
> I'm trying to compare Alexei with some other known political figures. For Americans, I think Alexei is roughly comparable to MLK.

If you are comparing him to MLK, you've not seen Navalny's videos on Central Asians I guess (in case you need a summary: compares them to insects that need to be exterminated then kills one with a handgun).

I'd pay ... even if just for a year so I can have more time to migrate everything.
Should be there now!
Reading the FAQ and the emails they have sent, I get no indication that this is necessary, and it comes across like a convenient excuse to cut a service.
It's really frustrating. As I said, I've used the same address for 20+ years now and it seemed like good brand awareness for the university to maintain this service for graduates/professionals so I never thought I suddenly have to move away from it.

You can find my non-SFU (!) contact info in my profile.

In fairness to them, there isn't a way to keep your forwarding address even if you pay, or at least nothing advertised.

Is it right to blame Google/Yahoo for deprecating an email forwarding service?

My former university, Simon Fraser University, had a service for graduates where you could keep your old [email protected] email address after graduation they would forward messages to an external email address.I've been using this email address for 20 years now but they suddenly announced that they have to deprecate this service "to comply with industry-wide regulations" led by Google and Yahoo.A...

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