On Message with Ben Gross

Three recent posts from O’Reilly weblogs
ONLamp.com — An OpenLDAP Update: Marty Heyman provides a nice overview of major enhancements to OpenLDAP over the years as well as insights into future directions of the popular open source directory services package. The article is well worth a read if you are interested in OpenLDAP.
When Webmail 2.0 is [...]

Yahoo Buys Zimbra for $350 Million | BoomTown | Kara Swisher | AllThingsD: Yahoo continues acquired email related products. Previously, it has purchased Rocketmail, Oddpost and Bloomba. Zimbra has existing partnerships with Comcast and Plaxo.
DEranged Security » Blog Archive » Time to reveal…: The Swedish security research who published the [...]

TidBITS Networking: Penelope Project Ships Eudora 8.0.0b1: Adam Engst has a nice writeup of the first open source beta of Eudora which is the first pass at merging features appreciated by the Eudora fan base as open source into Mozilla Thunderbird.
German Unix User Group (GUUG) | Events | 1st International Conference on LDAP: the the [...]

Archive Sues to Recover 5 Million : The National Security Archive has sued the White House to obtain and require the preservation of over five million emails they say were deleted between 2003 and 2005. (Via Boing Boing.)
Official Google Reader Blog: “We found it!”: Google has added search functionality to Google Reader. It has been [...]

F-Secure : News from the Lab - September of 2007 3d Spam: F-Secure discusses a new variant of image spam that has a 3D-like appearance. (Via The Register.)
San Jose Mercury News - Germany defends plan to use spyware in terror investigations: the German government is defending a proposal to be allowed to use trojan horse [...]

Court rules against TorrentSpy in hacking case | CNET News.com: One interesting part to this case is that the MPAA paid a third party (a former business associate of TorrentSpy’s founter) for copies of emails from TorrentSpy’s executives. A U.S. District judge found the that MPAA did not violate the Federal Wiretap Act.
(Via Slashdot.)
Spamhaus off [...]