Microsoft Linux Systems Group | US | Full Time | Principal Software Engineer - Linux Virtualization
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武侠 (Wuxia) culture is big in Alibaba. Everyone has a 花名 (alias / nickname) in the company. In the early days, people just picked names from 金庸 (Jin Yong)'s novels. Jack Ma's 花名 is 风清扬, who is a great sword master in one of the novels. Source: I had a short stint there.
Picking 玄铁, which also comes from Jin Yong's novel, seems rather natural in that context.
Jin Yong's novels are very popular in Chinese speaking countries and regions. Most readers won't associate them with China. I don't think it has anything to do with national pride. Culture pride? I don't see much either.
You would not have been approved for a passport, if deemed unworthy.
Whilst other countries do this, in the West, denial to issue a passport is typically predicated upon conviction of extremely serious crimes. Not merely because some hidden agency does not like your social standing.
Further you require a valid passport, or an 'exit permit', to exit China. You may not leave legally without one.
Not so in the West. You can not be detained from leaving the country, at all, passport or not. Other countries may refuse you entry, but this is not remotely the same thing.
For example, if I as a Canadian attempt to fly to the US, Canada grants the US CBP the right to setup pre-clearance facilities in Canadian airports. And often airlines handle this for foreign powers as well. However, that is a foreign power denying me entry, not my government denying me the right to exit.
As an example, I can just walk across the border to the US, and have broken not a single Canadian law. US law, if I do not report to CBP, yes.
Meanwhile, one would be breaking China's laws to cross the border from China without a passport, or exit VISA.
I did not indicate your worth, or lack of worth, to the Chinese state.
Instead, I stated that people are not granted exit VISAs, or passports, if not deemed worthy of one. It seems as if you are attempting to twist my words a bit here.
A few years back, one of my ex-colleagues who needed to travel to US frequently for work was stopped right before boarding a plane because he had a layover in one of the blacklisted countries while on holiday. He didn't even know he lost his ESTA.
Running a mail server which receives mail is easy. Getting your e-mails delivered can be more difficult. But so far (I have been running a personal e-mail server since 2007), I have gotten most of my e-mails delivered.
It's pretty much out of your control. If the server you rented has a tainted IP reputation, you're done for. Instead of cycling through to get the good IP, which isn't too easy to tell, you should just use a proxy service.
If you're on a small scale, those 2 services I mentioned aren't going to cost you much (free and maybe about 5 cents a month.)
I even proxy my hobby personal domain server because I don't want my personal mails get buried in people's junk folder.
If you are alright with running a single piece app that provides webmail, SMTP, POP, and REST, you might be interested in my project: http://www.inbucket.org/
It's really targeted for intranet use though, I wouldn't recommend exposing anything other than the SMTP port to the internet.
I use Fastmail and, yes, you can reply from the aliases, including anything-you-want catch-alls. Unlike the grandparent, I use a subdomain because setting star@example.com as a catch-all seems to invite staggering amount of spam.
I set star@hi.example.com as a catch-all and then have a rule that, unless otherwise categorized elsewhere, anything sent to star@hi.example.com is automatically filed into a "Catch-All" folder.
With Fastmail, I can set a reply address that matches any of my aliases and * (star) works as expected, it matches anything, so I can just create a sending identity in Thunderbird as, say, mybank@hi.example.com without having to go into Fastmail's control panel and do anything else.
I do this on my home email server via Thunderbird. There is a plugin here: https://www.absorb.it/virtual-id that lets you put in an arbitrary from address (as long as your server will accept it.)
