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Submission + - gmail's policies are abusive to small ISPs 1

Submitted by galexand on Thursday July 15, 2010 @11:38AM

galexand writes: My gmail-using friends were not getting my email, so I investigated. Similar reports abound, with suggested resolutions ranging from fixing your DNS to adding SPF, but many cases remained unresolved. So I putzed with my DNS, postfix, and SPF settings for a couple days and now my headers look perfect to me but gmail is still labeling my email as spam. This appears to be an intentional policy on google's part — they just assume that most small servers are run by spammers and accept that they'll knock off the occasional small business. The trouble is that gmail is so large that they can unilaterally redefine email, but they aren't publishing their specs so we can't conform. What can we do about this kind of abuse from big providers?

Submission + - NASA Hubble spots hot comet-like planet (networkworld.com) 1

Submitted by coondoggie on Thursday July 15, 2010 @10:25AM

coondoggie writes: Is it a planet or a comet? Astronomers are calling a newly explored scorched object a "cometary planet" because it has the components of a planet but with a tail like a comet. Astronomers from the University of Colorado in Boulder using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope say the planet, named HD 209458b, is orbiting so close to its star that its heated atmosphere is escaping into space, creating a tail-like appearance.

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