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- Good email can take the ISP fast lane
- Good email can take the ISP fast laneIt's the bulk, actuallyGoodMail's main "product" appears to be a sort of "Good Housekeeping Mark of Approval" for "good bulk mail."Individual senders aren't really relevant. If an individual sender could get GoodMailed by virtue of sending through his ISP's mail servers the...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Goodmail, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2007-06-22
- Good email can take the ISP fast lane
- Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable's Road Runner and Verizon have joined Yahoo and AOL in adopting the CertifiedMail reputation program from Goodmail Systems.Courtesy of Slashdot's "something-to-think-about dept," CmdrTaco asks What Happens If You Don't Pay for Goodmail?  (Read CmdrTaco's blog for an objective analysis of both sides of the debate.) [Here's] the Catch 22: If...
- Tags: Spam, Security, Messaging, email marketing, Email
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- Leading ISPs sign up for Goodmail antispam service
- Leading ISPs sign up for Goodmail antispam serviceIt's sad that it has come down to thisWhile this may come off as another email scam, this might actually be the best solution when it comes to the next level of email assurance. The only problem with this is that the more...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, anti-spam, Goodmail, e-mail, spam, spammer, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2007-06-07
- EFF's sender pay email debate ends in draw
- Last night Mitch Kapor, Esther Dyson and Danny O’Brien debated the pros and cons of sender-pay email at a fundraiser for the Electronic Frontier Foundation held at the Roxie Film Center in the Mission district. Actually Mitch was the moderator, but the co-founder of EFF and Chair of the Open...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Goodmail, e-mail
- Blog posts 2006-04-21
- Craig Newmark's modest anti-spam proposal
- Craigslist's Craig Newmark weighs in on the recent anti-spam/phishing debate. The Goodmail/AOL proposal, which Esther Dyson has written about, is built around a pay-to-send email certification scheme. The DearAOL Coalition rejects it as an "email tax." Here's what Craig proposes on his blog:Here's what seems to be a great alternative...
- Tags: e-mail, Goodmail/AOL
- Blog posts 2006-03-23
- What Esther really said about Goodmail
- I posted on Monday about the DearAOL coalition's take on Esther Dyson's New York Times op-ed column on Goodmail's CertifiedEmail approach to fighting spam, and Esther's follow up response. In an email, Esther further explained her viewpoint and where DearAOL miscued:I never got the courtesy of a reply from the...
- Tags: Goodmail, DearAOL Coalition, Esther
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
- DearAOL.com coalition tangles with Esther Dyson over Goodmail's CertifiedEmail approach to spam eradication
- On Friday, Esther Dyson wrote a New York Times op-ed piece, “You've Got Goodmail,” in which she advocated for Goodmail Systems’ freedom to pursue a 'certified' approach to dealing with the problem of spam and fraud on the Internet. She wrote:What Goodmail is proposing is a sort of FedEx...
- Tags: Goodmail
- Blog posts 2006-03-20
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- Will honest mail ever prevail?
- Will honest mail ever prevail?Will the Real Email Reputation Services Please Stand Up?Hi Maureen,Thank you for writing another excellent post. What *is* the definition of an email reputation? Much like anti-spam tools in the early days of 2002, the definition of reputation services varies greatly amongst the vendors described in...
- Tags: E-mail, Spam, Habeas
- Discussion threads 2007-06-29
- Will honest mail ever prevail?
- For the purposes of this post, "honest email" refers to non-spam messages -- whereas, spam messages are the unquestionable bad stuff sent by the bad guys. To sieve the honest email from the spam email is a Herculean, never-ending task.At a basic level, there are two methodologies by which to determine if an email message is...
- Tags: Spam, Security, email marketing, Email
- Blog posts 2007-06-22
- News to know: IE, Vista patches on deck; Google's money machine; Microsoft's licensing mess
- Notable headlines:Ryan Naraine: Patch Tuesday: Critical IE, Vista patches on deck. Exploits released for nasty Yahoo Webcam ActiveX flaws.Import ban slapped on some 3G handsets.Parallels updates Windows-on-Mac software. Gallery left.Dan Farber: SAP unveils Co-Innovation Lab and envisions Web 3.0.Garett Rogers: Google launches YouTube's money machine.Ed Bott: Microsoft's licensing mess. Mary...
- Tags: News to know, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Time to CTRL-ATL-DEL the Motorola Q?
- Time to CTRL-ATL-DEL the Motorola Q?Well - what did you expect?I have a Sony widescreen TV which has a lot of programmable functionality. Sometimes it just seems to "get stuck" in certain tasks and the only way to deal with it is to turn it off. It is a lot...
- Tags: Smart phones, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular phones, Operating systems, Handhelds, blue screen of death, phone, smart phone, Motorola Q, BSOD, Motorola Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-10-06
- Kevin Rose: 'kill your television' and join me at Revision3
- Digg partners Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson want you to “kill your television” and join them instead for their “televison, revised.”Why is it “Revision3”? According to Jay Adelson, Chairman, CEO and David Prager, COO, VP Programming:• Revision 1: Cable, adding general interest channels, catering to “most common denominator”• Revision 2:...
- Tags: Revision3, Kevin Rose
- Blog posts 2006-09-25
- EFF's sender pay email debate ends in draw
- EFF's sender pay email debate ends in drawsender mailone of two things will happen:1) Users get wise to the fact that goodmail simply = spam and start ignoring it, forcing the scheme to end.2) People leave AOL for a 'real' ISP, not some walled-in-garden system with proprietary protocols/censorship etc...Since Option...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Cyber-Crime, spam, advertisement, e-mail, Cashette
- Discussion threads 2006-04-22
- Craig Newmark's modest anti-spam proposal
- Craig Newmark's modest anti-spam proposalNothing newI find Craig's proposal nothing new. Being a thawte WoT notary myself, I've been promoting the use of digital signatures for quite some time now. They are useful in the spam war, but then again there are other ways.My alternative proposal would be to use...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, e-mail, HashCash, spam, anti-spam
- Discussion threads 2006-03-23
- What Esther really said about Goodmail
- What Esther really said about GoodmailThe SolutionWell, as biased as I am, I am the CEO of Mujica Technologies (www.mujica.com), I feel there is a middle ground. The middle ground lives here:- Deliver non-commercial email at no cost with the same benfits and efficiency as commercial certified email, only after...
- Tags: e-mail, Mujica Technologies, spam
- Discussion threads 2006-03-22
- DearAOL.com coalition tangles with Esther Dyson over Goodmail's CertifiedEmail approach to spam eradication
- DearAOL.com coalition tangles with Esther Dyson over Goodmail's CertifiedEmail approach to spam eradicationBulk MailHaving to pay Bulk Mail prices at the US Post Office never stopped unsolicited snail mail from arriving in my mailbox. DearAOL.com could be proven correct in their assumption that with this CertifiedEmail approach, AOL will have...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Esther Dyson, spam, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2006-03-20
- Stamp of approval for e-postage
- Stamp of approval for e-postageePostage, the death of e-mail as we know it!Companies will find ways arround any taxation of messages, the messages will still get through, only complication and stagnation will be added!Self-contradictoryWait, how will a system that guarantees that certain spam will make it to my mailbox, past...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, Unsolicited commercial email, e-mail, spam, advertisement, account holder
- Discussion threads 2006-02-13
- Tech execs: Wake up and smell the spam
- Spam is an awareness problem, not a product or technology problem, Symantec CEO John Thompson said during a panel discussion hosted by Esther Dyson on the "Accountable Net." Esther defines the Accountable Net as strengthening the current Internet initiatives toward “authentication of servers so that users know whom to trust,...
- Tags: Accountable, Thompson
- Blog posts 2004-12-01
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