On Message with Ben Gross

There have been a number of announcements about email archiving recently. Rather than develop “retention policies” that justify disposal of old mail, the trend is towards keeping everything, forever. It seems very likely that the market will both grow significantly, and consolidate, in 2006. As with anti-spam and anti-virus services, there is an open question [...]

Intuitively, it isn’t obvious that calendaring is a hard problem. But after using (and being forced to use) various calendaring schemes, and sitting through lots of team meetings to discuss Exchange, Meeting Maker, WebCalendar, iCal, Yahoo! and other free services too numerous to mention, I’m convinced that it’s hard for small groups to agree on [...]

The patent litigation that threatens to turn off the Blackberries of millions of users continues to grind along. It hasn’t seemed appropriate to cover it here before because the prospects for more or less peaceful resolution have seemed good, and because the latest minute to minute development developments are covered elsewhere.
But SearchDomino’s coverage of Gartner’s [...]

Roughly 83 percent of inbound SMTP traffic consists of “spam and network intrusion precursors like directory harvest attacks (DHA), email denial of service (DoS) attacks, malformed SMTP packets, messages to non-existent recipient addresses, and other invalid email messages that should not be accepted into enterprise networks,” according to Tumbleweed’s Dark Traffic Report. From Q1 [...]