Re: Sad but not terrible
Yes, I know no sensible person sends mail by "telnet <mx> 25"
While this may be true, spammers do exactly that programatically. Spew to port 25 and just discard the result.
Me? One of my web cams nicely transfers pictures once a minute to my FPT server and has for over 10 years. Of course, FTP is a really weird protocol (PORT/PASV and all that), but if it is implemented, it DOES work. There is a lot of history around it and the problems/flaws are pretty well known, and for the most part pretty well fixed. It is like the energizer bunny, it keeps going, beating its drum.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
