Friday, June 21, 2002

Anti-spam service battles bugs. A new, much-hyped service has been flooded with questions, frustrations and suggestions for improvement from the community it relies on to fight junk mail. [CNET News.com] I think Cloudmark went public a _little_ too early - I couldn't get it to work. This demonstrates the company's open source roots, releasing early and often has different ramifications when you're a company providing a service for $$$, which they'll eventually be. The need is there, however - I believe they can get the tech to work. Outlook integration is evil, but it can be done. 10:14:20 AM      comment []  trackback []

AmphetaDesk zaero says: have you ever used AmphetaDesk? zaero says: it's like Radio, only it's open source and written in.... zaero says: PERL!!!! zaero says: i'm using CPAN... that thing is pretty fancy John says: I've been using AmphetaDesk for a few weeks now. John says: the one problem is, it doesn't show you RSS differences (just new stuff). It shows you the whole RSS file each time for each of your channels John says: I contacted the author - he says that'll be fixed in the next release. CPAN is peerless. It's why I love Perl. 7:57:37 AM      comment []  trackback []