Bytes in the Margin

Will we see more organizations outsourcing email services? Having run my own personal mail server for a few years, I'd be quite wary of purchasing and operating your own mail servers. Yes, if you own your mail servers, you can make them as secure and redudant as you want if price is no limit. But there's ...

Dear Mail Server Admins,
I hardly ever check the spam folder you gave me, what makes you think I'm going to read a daily quarantine message for false positives?  E-mail is broken, but I don't know of any way to really fix it.
Thank You.

I've been trying out Mozilla's Thunderbird standalone email program at work. For two reasons: it feels faster and more responsive, to try to ween myself off of the Mozilla bundle which consumes a lot of memory. I should check out Firebird next.
 
Anyway, one feature of Thunderbird is spell-checking, which catches a lot of typos for ...

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