ISPs are telling their customers to use gmail/hotmail instead of their POP and IMAP servers; last year Macquarie University told its students to use gmail instead of the hassle, cost and overhead of running a local email server. Geeks are Sexy asks; Could Gmail become a corporate solution?
I used a gmail account for my consultancy last year. I was going to use an account specific to my business name's URL, but really, I couldn't be bothered with the hassle, the overhead, the concern about spam, etc. Plus my gmail account is my name not some fanciful nick like Level70Paladin@gmail.com, it is the much more dull and boring cam.riley at gmail. (more)
From a Rusty Elliot Harold entry titled,
Comment Spam Gets Trickier
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Comment spammers are copying sentences out of legitimate comments and resubmitting them with a link or two changed. If you're not careful, this can even fool a human inspection since the spam is thereby on topic and relevant. If it comes a couple of months after an original article was posted that received a lot of comments, it's very easy to miss.(more)
