Monday, August 18, 2003
Email reliability. Don Park laments the impact spam is having on how all of us deal with our email inboxes.
I used to feel comfortable with reliability of e-mails. When I send something to somebody, I felt reasonably sure that it will be delivered and read. That is no longer true today even with wide use of spam filters. When I send an e-mail now, I no longer feel sure of it being read by the receipient.
A few months back, I began using SpamBayes for the email I receive using Outlook. It's roughly equivalent to the built-in spam filter I use in Apple's Mail application. Once trained, it does a great -- although certainly not perfect -- job of sorting spam from real mail. Highly recommended! [Scott Loftesness]
9:37:55 AM    
Web 2.0 is all about lighting up underutilized PCs, which Clay Shirky calls "the Dark matter of the Internet"

With improvements in hardware, connectivity and sheer numbers (of connected PCs) still mounting rapidly, anyone who can figure how to light up the internet's dark matter gains access to a large and growing pool of computing resources, even if some of the functions are centralized...

[John Robb's Weblog]
9:33:07 AM    

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