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Interview With Jeremy Howard of FastMail.fm

Posted by kdawson on from the doing-one-thing-well dept.

Siker writes "In a world of giants such as Gmail and Rackspace, email service provider FastMail.fm is somehow doing great, with signups above the million mark and reliability above four 9s. Email Service Guide interviews Jeremy Howard, founder of FastMail.fm, to find out how. Also covered are the company's contributions to Open Source software such as Cyrus-IMAP and Thunderbird. Jeremy discusses the future of IMAP, how open protocols help FastMail.fm, and why he thinks SLAs from email providers are a con."

3 of 135 comments (clear)

  1. Fast Who.What ? by lbalbalba · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Neverheardofthem. Move along...

  2. Re:First post from an actual fastmail subscriber? by Threni · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
    Where do you come from, Cotton-Eyed Joe?

  3. Re:First post from an actual fastmail subscriber? by Empiric · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    If it hadn't been for cotton-eye Joe, I'd have been married a long time ago.

    Or maybe it was Thomas Saying 79.

    Or 23.

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    ~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?