Practical Technology

At first I thought it was just me. I’d open up my e-mail inbox in the morning to find over a hundred messages telling me that people at OhMyGoshAndGoodness.com or NowWhatWasThatAllAbout.com didn’t need my spam. Spam? Me? I don’t think so!
So, I checked my systems to see if somehow or the other one of my [...]

You may not know the term, “CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart),” but you’ve used it.
You may not, however, be using it for much longer. Every time you’ve had to puzzle out the letters and numbers from a distorted, scrambled jumble before you can sign up for a new [...]

The combination of Google and Postini is exactly what CIOs need for their corporate e-mail systems and what Microsoft doesn’t offer.
When you think e-mail servers and service, do you think POP/SMTP and MAPI? Or, do Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPPA come to mind? If you think of the former, youre thinking like a system administrator; if youre [...]

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to stop spam from overwhelming your bandwidth and entering your customers’ mailboxes. We have every faith that you and your anti-spam efforts will be successful. If not, your company will, of course, disavow any knowledge of your actions. This message will self-destruct in five seconds…Mission impossible? [...]

The best way to stop ‘ILOVEYOU’ is to stop using Outlook.
So how many times do people have to be whacked on their heads by a Melissa-like virus to get the point?
So far I’ve been “ILOVEYOUed” six times today. Unlike many of you, however, other than being annoyed, I don’t have the bug, I’m not [...]