Such requests aren't unusual, because large organisations generate and deal with large amounts of email, and things do go wrong with it – which is why you need experts looking after it.
WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency and its British counterpart have apparently tapped the fiber-optic cables connecting Google's and Yahoo's overseas servers and are copying vast amounts of email and other information, according to accounts of documents leaked by the former agency contractor Edward J. Snowden.
It's fast, slick, and comes with a set of new features for managing large amounts of email that make it a much better rival to Gmail.
With the new email offering, Mixpanel is allowing companies who send large amounts of email correspondence (i.e. think LinkedIn, Facebook, Groupon) to track analytics around the effectiveness of these emails.
Search is also a part of Vault, and via the new service users can search across large amounts of email in an archive, and define and manage collections of message search results and collaborate with others to manage them.
Back in 2002, AT&T technician Mark Klein found documents that showed the National Security Agency NSAA) was working with major telecoms to soak up massive amounts of email, search and other Internet records from more than a dozen global and regional providers.
According to a Washington Post report on Wednesday, the NSA had tapped directly into communications links used by Google and Yahoo Inc to move huge amounts of email and other user information among overseas data centers.
According to CNN, the original reason for the hearing is to discuss the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the NSA to gather large amounts of email and phone conversations from non-US citizens around the globe, though the practice also inevitably pulls in American citizens' communications without a warrant.
"You can't believe the amount of emails and tweets I've been getting," said Steve McNamara, general secretary of the LTDA.
What I found when I opened my laptop was a mindboggling amount of emails, hate mail, death threats, and interview requests.
