Scalable enterprise-class turnkey solution allowing user-friendly transactions between a two-tier client-server companion system entering into relational operations monitoring fluid mechanics.
Basically, your well-hung boss is banging his secretary in the ass.
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Jesus, this reminds me of working for the American multinationals. The no-talent asshat management couldn't see that companies exist to make money from customers, not optimise internal processes or leverage synergies.
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Anonymous2007-04-13 10:21 ID:oaRGijeL
>>24
Is too. Judging from the way it's tossed around like it meant something, which it doesn't.
my head hurts whenever they toss these words around, someone ought to make a proxy automatically replace all these words with "";
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Anonymous2007-04-14 18:58 ID:mCK6zFJj
>>19
Oh my fucking god ("OMFG"). At first I was laughing my ass off ("LMAO") because I thought it was a joke site created by poor frustrated programmers. It just had too many acronyms and buzzwords, and icons of Adobe and OMG. Then the hard truth hit me.
What follows is a summary of my discussion with Michael Katz, President and Founder of Message Partners, about the problems with spam, why it hits service providers the hardest, and what they need to do to protect themselves against current and future threats to email. Please note: for full disclosure, I also work for Message Partners.
While I'm sure everyone is very aware of the problems of spam, can you tell me why service providers need to be even more concerned?
Service providers provide email services for many more customers than typical enterprise customer has to service. Since 90 percent of email is spam, that means that service providers are carrying 90 percent more email traffic than they need to carry.
Service providers waste lots of bandwidth by transporting email that's junk. Bottom line, the more service providers can reduce spam, the more efficient their business runs, the more efficient their cost structure is, and the happier their customers are.
How are service providers' needs different than a typical company that uses email?
Service providers have to work with many different customers. One thing that we find in the anti-spam industry is that from company to company people have different ideas of what spam is. They have different ideas of how they want to handle spam, there are different regulations, some companies cannot ever discard an email, some companies never want to see a spam email and just want them totally discarded. So service providers have to respond to an array of customer requests and need to have a type of technology that can be adaptive based on what their customers demand.
Furthermore, most service providers have a much higher volume of email than your typical corporate customers especially if you consider that lots of spam are dictionary attacks. So, even a company with an ISP email account that has only 5 users, in a dictionary attack may get email for 5,000 or 50,000 or 500,000 users in their domain that do not exist, so service providers need very scalable solutions, solutions that are very flexible to deal with, multiple requirements, and also service providers tend to operate on very small profit margins that need very cost efficient solutions.
Do you think it's feasible for service providers to use a completely open source solution?
Open source makes great component technologies. There's good email servers, there's good virus scanners, there's good spam scanners, there's good other components of email systems such as mail user agents or authentication systems but when it comes down to raw filtering open source doesn't have very good scalable solutions and further more combining all those technology components into scalable multi-domain solution. It's pretty difficult with open source.
Lastly, even though you may save money on open source because there are no licensing costs, if you look at the complete cost of ownership of an open source solution you generally need very highly skilled admins to run your open source solution and you?re going to require lot's more programming skills than you will need on a commercial solution. If you take all the resources and you hire a very skilled admin to run your open source solution, and then you put all the time into that, in the end they're not really making you money, they are just running something that saves you money, supposedly. It's much better to hired a skilled person and put them on something that make money like content development or network systems management rather than spam filtering which is generally not a huge profit center for ISPs.
I would also imagine if all that system information lies with one person, a person who has done all the fixes and patches to keep everything up-to-date and running, if that person leaves the company, what does that company do?
Putting all your eggs in one employees basket is very risky and putting all of your business into an open source project where support may only be a mailing list and one smart guy who is generous to help you doesn't make a lot of sound business sense.
Why is the email platform so important for service providers?
As much as people complain about email and as much as spam has tried to take over email, pretty simply, it was the first and will probably remain to be the killer application for the internet. People can live without web browsing...sometimes, but people can't live without email.
So tell me why MPP is ideal for service providers?
Because, for one, our policy engine allows service providers to serve their different customer types, so they can have completely separate configurations on a per-domain or per-group basis. Secondly, MPP allows you to combine open source technology components but augment open source architecture with commercial technology components that perform much better. For example, our Cloudmark anti-spam plug-in performs about 20 or 30 times better than our SpamAssassin plug which makes a huge difference for service providers.
Lastly, the ability to customize all aspects of the MPP email security architecture gives service providers the competitive advantage to present services how they need to and compete in a very individualistic fashion.
What do you see as the future of email threats, and do you think spam is ever going to go away?
As long as you can make money with spam, then there will be people that will exploit that. Spam won't ever go away.
Bill Gates predicted the end of spam by 2006 or 2007, but certainly spam has only increased. I think you're going to see email threats that are going to be more focused on theft of information and that's going to carry more dangerous payloads besides just text. And I think you're going to see phishing schemes, schemes where identity is extracted, become far more sophisticated and far more difficult to defend against and detect against legitimate requests for information.
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Anonymous2007-04-16 10:56 ID:XMTXn8UR
>>11
you mean Digital Restrictions Management.
amirite?
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Anonymous2007-04-16 11:24 ID:D9x0nJb6
software engineering
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Anonymous2007-04-16 12:15 ID:dW5YKwso
Saying DRM manages your rights is like saying jail manages your freedom.
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Anonymous2007-04-16 14:02 ID:tWOgWq0f
Solutions and certifications make me want to vomit.
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Anonymous2007-04-16 14:29 ID:8oNXcJ4S
>>41
I'm so enterprise I vomit solutions and certifications.
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Anonymous2007-04-17 6:00 ID:5g00mI6g
Will we have enough problems for so many solutions?
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Anonymous2007-04-17 7:10 ID:V+FmjsGq
>>43
We can always create more problems. Just look at Java; it spawned an entire industry to provide solutions to the problems it creates.
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Anonymous2007-04-17 7:13 ID:V+FmjsGq
>>43
We can always create more problems. Just look at Java; it spawned an entire industry to provide solutions to the problems it creates.
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Anonymous2007-04-17 7:52 ID:vzFkGvPy
>>43
We can always create more problems. Just look at Java; it spawned an entire industry to provide solutions to the problems it creates.
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Anonymous2007-04-17 8:20 ID:g3Vmrwc6
>>43
We can always create more problems. Just look at Java; it spawned an entire industry to provide solutions to the problems it creates.
Engine applications are implemented using the Python web frameworks were bloated disgustingly designed pieces of shit COVERED IN SHIT and fail when she cheated on me so I think i will divide at him and tried to move on several times but it appears he fell in his own drum addresses every instruction he wrote.