Over the past few years mail hosts have made it simple to switch on secure transport between a sender or recipient and a mail server.
Central is a common house where residents meet, cook and eat together twice a week, hold parties, collect their mail, host local groups and collectively govern their little community.
My mail host, Pair.com, recently added SpamAssassin, which uses rules to route much of my mail directly to a deleted-items folder.
The machines of those neighborhoods behave like dedicated servers used to send spam: they use SOCKS and HTTP protocols, meaning they do not contact any mail host directly (only through proxies), each sends a large number of messages, and most of them are not in any blacklist.
Critical Path, a provider of E-mail hosting services, skyrocketed 174.9% on its first day of trading to close at 65 7/8, up 41 7/8 from its opening price of $24.
Stock in Ireland's Riverdeep, an educational softwaremaker, sold for $20 at the March opening, hit $66 the next day and is back at $26. Crayfish, an e-mail hosting service in Japan, watched shares shoot to $132 after opening at $24.50 in March, then drop to a recent $10.50.
Federal fraud charges announced last week by the Securities and Exchange Commission against former executives of e-mail hosting outfit Critical Path related to a vast overstatement of sales by accounting that the SEC had emphasized as improper in a highly publicized policy statement issued barely nine months earlier.
However, we had no ad partners, as advertisers wanted to see high volume, and our fixed costs (printing, mailing, hosting) started to add up without any funding or revenue.
Yesterday's star was Crayfish, a Japanese company that provides e-mail host services for businesses.
THE tiny but highly regarded e-mail host Lavabit abruptly pulled the plug on its 400,000 users on August 8th.
