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Building A Better Inbox (Updated)
vudujava writes "c|net is reporting that a new free (Update: not free, actually, read more for details.), web based email service is opening it's doors today. They promise to deliver "100% spam free" email to their users by using a challenge-response system to all incoming, first-time mail. Catch the entire story here. Although the idea isn't new, it shows that we are notching up the "war on spam"."
Alert reader George Hotelling points out this post on Politech which may give you pause when it comes to the new mail service's Terms of Service.
And kraksmoka writes "As reported on this article on MSNBC : 'Hotmail subscribers are now limited to sending only 100 messages a day "in an effort to prevent spammers from using Hotmail to spread spam," said Lisa Gurry, MSN lead product manager.'"
dlanod writes "In your snippet on the main page you report mailblocks.com as "a new free, web based email service". Looking at Mailblocks' site, it actually costs $9.95/year for the standard service, or $24.95/year for the expanded service with no free option listed (https://app1.mailblocks.com/register.htm)."
dufus
I'm predicting 2000+ allied troops dead!
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"War on Spam", eh? Please don't contribute to the further degradation of the term "war".
War is meant to describe a (violent) conflict between two or more sovereign groups, typically states or other political affiliations. It is not meant to be used in phrases like "war on drugs" or "war on terrorism". Both of those are wars on concepts: ultimately unwinnable and horribly 1984-esque.
I support a war on terrorists. Known terrorists should be found and justice (not vengeance) should be sought. But to blindly declare war on terrorism is quite reckless, and to use it to justify attacking Iraq (which has no affiliation with Al Qaeda, and never would affiliate with them as Iraq is a secular Baathist sect and quite ideologically different than Al Qaeda) is utterly ridiculous.
Heh. I went from "2: Informative" to "1: Troll".
I tell you, the gods are mad!
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So that's what all this is about? Saddam got modded "-5, Flamebait" on Slashdot?
You can see clearly, that the poster is trying to incite yet another useless flamewar.