Thursday, October 24, 2002

Reasons to be Intertwingled, Part 3 As Paul has blogged at least twice [1 & 2], Ray Ozzie posited the notion of publicly readable e-mail. An unrelated story on Wired News (about a musician selling his own works on eBay) illustrates one of e-mail's biggest problems: "There is a lack of communication at eBay," Steiner said. "If one person received an e-mail, they might deal with the problem. The problem is, it doesn't get logged, and if another e-mail shows up, another customer service representative starts the whole process all over again." While the concept of publicly-readable e-mail makes most people cringe, the example above illustrates why companywide-readable e-mail makes a lot of sense in many cases. 3:48:53 PM    comment []

Census Data Now Online The 1880 U.S. Census, that is. Thanks to a 17-year effort by the Mormon church, the database may be searched at www.familysearch.org. 1:19:15 PM    comment []

Largest Ever Attack On Internet The Internet's 13 root servers were hit with a distributed denial of service attack for one hour yesterday. More at: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/55/27738.html http://www.NewsFactor.com/perl/story/19756.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A828-2002Oct22.html [Source: WebReference Update newsletter] 12:33:14 PM    comment []