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Weird Email Problems and rDNS

Friday, April 27th, 2007

For the past few days I have been troubleshooting a very strange problem at one of my clients. They have a small Windos network of about 7 computers connected to the Internet through a single DSL line. Recently, they begun to experience slowdowns when sending email through Outlook - when ...

RSS Auto-Discovery via Email

Monday, June 27th, 2005

Andy's blog entry and Meng's whitepaper got me thinking about RSS discovery via email. What if some of the emails sent today such as lists, sites like Politech, etc. included a header pointing to an RSS version of the same content? What if email clients like Thunderbird which already have ...

RSS vs. Mailing Lists

Wednesday, May 25th, 2005

Recently I have been observing myself switching slowly from mailing lists to RSS feeds for some of the many lists I am on. So far, I have established a principle that anything that I need to get via email can come via RSS instead if it is something that I ...

New Survey of MTAs Needed?

Monday, February 14th, 2005

Following up on my earlier post from two weeks ago about MTA market share, it seems that no one really has any accurate numbers for that. Did time come for a new survey, perhaps using a distributed network of scanners similar to Grub?

Finding MTA Market Share

Monday, January 31st, 2005

One interesting piece of information that I am currently trying to hunt down is the current market share for Mail Transfer Agents (MTAs) on the Internet. This includes only programs that receive and send email between domains through the Internet (as opposed to private networks), and should include open source ...