Michael Gracie

Windows Live Messenger is in an invitation only beta-test - a cute little scenario stolen from the early Gmail days (except that Microsoft can only invite their own users). A few of those invites were subsequently posted on eBay (think Gmail invites again), and I suspect by someone with a vested interest in hyping the whole thing. That hype may now backfire.
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Paul Buchheit throws up a quick post on Gmail, and notes that part of his drive to improve the product was all the spam he used to get. He doesn’t come right out and say all his spam is gone, so I’ll put my two cents in there.
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Google recently introduced phishing countermeasures into their Gmail product. We do know that there will be alerts sent out warning Gmail users of suspected internet scams, and that there is now a button to report spams. What Google is using technology wise to thwart phishing we may never know, as Google loves chalking everything up to “proprietary”.

You can catch more here, although I don’t know why the ISSJ News Desk chose the .NET Developer’s Journal for this piece of news.

CNET had this piece on a recent email survey out of the Bay Area: E-mail and its discontents.

Unfortunately, they miss on a point or two, so Spamroll will help them out.
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