On Message with Ben Gross

ROBOT9000 and #xkcd-signal: Attacking Noise in Chat is a description of a novel system built for the XKCD community chat that attempts to balance the needs of the community to keep the quality of discussion high with the overhead of moderating a community. (Tip of the hat to for On Message editor Jeff Ubois)

First Look: Microsoft Office for Mac 2008: Jonathan M. Gitlin at ars technica posts a detail review of a late beta of Office 2008 for the Mac, which was released at Macworld last week. The review includes details on the upgrade to Entourage with better support for Microsoft Exchange

Correcting Privacy Violations in Blind-Carbon-Copy (BCC) Encrypted Email is an interesting unpublished 2005 research paper from the Stanford PORTIA project showing how many common email clients with encryption extensions reveal the full list of BCC recipients to all other BCC recipients, thus effectively eliminating the privacy advantage of BCCs.

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