Email news for Tuesday, June 19, 2007
June 19th, 2007 by Randy Stewart, Product Manager
Infernal spam: Blocking e-mails constant struggle - Tulsa World
And apparently, incredibly expensive.
The tools may be effective, but for businesses like Bank of Oklahoma that run their own e-mail servers, they can be expensive. Brian Foster, senior vice president of information security at BOk, said a system to protect the company’s 3,000 to 6,000 unique addresses costs $30,000 to $50,000.
The article goes on to talk about the ever changing face of spam and the efforts at the Bank of Oklahoma to thwart it.
Why is Gmail still in beta
Good question, Esquire Magazine. We were wondering the same thing.
Gmail rolls out PowerPoint preview
Looks like Google might be getting closer to a full office suite. Yesterday, Google unveiled PowerPoint within Gmail. While you can’t create PowerPoint in Gmail, it sure seems like a good place to store them.
Oh, look you’re still getting plenty of spam
Techdirt has a sarcastic (and accurate) article about how putting one spammer in jail really just scratches the surface of the spam epidemic.
And speaking of jailed spammers -
Spam King denied bail
Our man in the can apparently will be staying there.