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Free LOPSA Memberships

Sounds interesting and I'd fit the criteria... but I don't really know how useful could it be from Italy.
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What to do with an accepted answer which is plainly wrong?

Since no similar question seemed to be around asking the same thing and showing the correct answer, I created one and suggested closing the incorrect ones as duplicates.
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I'm tired of answering questions with: "Upgrade the firmware" or "Run updates"

One time I had to rush at a customer's site whose quite impressive Exchange 2010 system (talking about > 20 servers here) kept randomly stopping mail delivery, which definitely isn't something you wou …
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What about jobs for system administrators?

The discussion: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/313459/what-about-jobs-for-system-administrators. …
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What about jobs for system administrators?

The relevant discussion is here: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/313459/what-about-jobs-for-system-administrators. The rest of this answer is completely useless, so feel free to skip it. …
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Do we have a canonical question about multiple MX records?

This would be more a question about shared SMTP domains (whose configuration strongly depend on the actual mail servers being in use) than MX records. Multiple MX records, depending on priority and r …
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What to do with an accepted answer which is plainly wrong?

Inspired by this question and this one. In the first question, the accepted and most upvoted answer is wrong and misleading, but it looks like it has been around for a while, it somewhat works (altho …
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Proposed canonical question: Why is it considered bad practice to run everything on the same...

My usual reaction after seeing questions like this one is to cry a lot, vote to close and add a suggestion to rethink what you are doing and/or call in a professional. But I think we can do better tha …
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How to handle situations where a user needs professional support and you are willing to prov...

This has happened to me several times already, and I think I'm not the only one. A (possibly new) user comes by with a question which clearly shows he is way out of his depth and he needs professiona …
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Old and useless questions bumped to home page by "Community"

I know there is a background process that bumps unanswered questions to home page; I understand the logic behind this is to give them a chance to be answered. The problem is, this often bumps to home …
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What to do about new users posting useless answers only to make themselves known?

I've recently often witnessed the quite sad phenomenon of new (and often clueless) users trying to make themselves known by adding useless answers to already-answered questions, or to old unanswered ( …
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