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GUESS WHAT! Ain't gonna happen. Apparently they got some negative feedback, which means they did a poor job of educating users with legitimate needs on how they could work with the limit.

All it required was correctly configuring your email client. It's not difficult, and MS would tell you how to do it. Your ISP could tell you how to do it. You could find instructions online on how to do it. Instead, you're letting a bazillion spammers slam everyone's inbox because MS won't rate limit how many emails can be spewed forth.

When it comes to Gmail, "...those who need to send more than 5,000 messages per day to Gmail accounts must set up SPF/DKIM and DMARC email authentication for their domains." Basically, users have to make sure their email is configured correctly to identify their domains and have opt-outs within their emails. Their web hosts should be able to do that. Granted, MLM Pat probably doesn't have the skills, but they should be able to hire someone who can. There are LOTS of freelancers out there with the chops.

Sigh.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-cancels-plans-to-rate-limit-exchange-online-bulk-emails/

https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/01/07/1659220/microsoft-cancels-plans-to-rate-limit-exchange-online-bulk-emails
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Wegmans is a chain dating back a century, based in the NY/New England area. Currently the technology is in then NYC stores. It was deployed with no notice, and customers are given no ability to opt out, short of not shopping in the stores.

They claim that it was installed for 'customer and employee safety'. I think that Madison Entertainment made a similar claim regarding the technology used to keep attorneys out of the Rockettes shows at Madison Square Gardens if their firms are representing companies involved in litigation against them.

I'm glad that I came across this information as one of the states that they operate in is Connecticut, which is a very high probability that we'll be moving there next year. While the technology is apparently not in use outside of NYC, once it's in place in one store, it's pretty easy to install in other stores.

https://www.aol.com/articles/popular-grocery-store-chain-uses-130056099.html

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/the-wegmans-supermarket-chain-is-probably-using-facial-recognition.html

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/01/06/2231258/nyc-wegmans-is-storing-biometric-data-on-shoppers-eyes-voices-and-faces

Bohemian Rhapsody - isiZulu style!

Jan. 6th, 2026 10:32 pm
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Presented by the Ndlovu Youth Choir.

This is from an August 30, 2025 NPR Weekend Edition article. The remaining members of Queen, along with the Mercury Phoenix Trust, authorized this - the only translation of the iconic Queen song. Freddy was born Farrokh Bulsara in Zanzibar, his family moved to England when he was young.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/30/nx-s1-5521906/queens-bohemianrhapsody-zulu-ndlovu-voice-choir

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