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Comment Re:Summary (Score 1) 175

As for Mailinator, couldn't one write a script that sent to a random email address at a particular domain e.g. adflas2343872938743@gmail.com and see if it bounces? If it bounces, it isn't a mailinator address.

Most email servers don't bounce anymore. Spammers used that to determine legitimacy of email addresses and purged bad emails. Now gmail and hotmail and such (the big ones) stay silent as to whether or not the email made it to a destination.

Comment Re:So..'many eyes make bugs shallow'? (Score 1) 152

While it is true that most(all?) developers on things like the Linux kernel are professional, it isn't true that they are usually acting on their own. In fact from the looks of it, only between 15-25% of the code is from unpaid work. The majority is by people who are paid by one company or another to work on it.

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