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They already do. Its called Postini, and some of the biggest corporations in the US already use it.
by nuclear_eclipse 15y ago
They already do. Its called Postini, and some of the biggest corporations in the US already use it.
- mkr-hn 15y agoThat's neat. But it's also the first I've heard of it. Do they promote it outside of the business world? I get the impression that they don't think of it as something a CS department or non-profit would use.
- shailesh 15y agoACM uses Postini.
- true_religion 15y agoIf a CS department is using it, they'd have it available through the university wide licence. Also, 80beans is using it and they only have a team of 6.
- mrtron 15y agoRegulated companies use Postini commonly for compliance reasons. Lots of big financial firms are customers.
- stevenbedrick 15y agoI know of several non-profits using Postini as their anti-spam solution.
- sunchild 15y agoPostini is widely used. I wish Apple would slap it onto me.com. My Apple email is a spamfest.
- jonknee 15y agoHave you looked for it? It's pretty tied in with their Google Apps offering which is where I've seen it, despite not being in the market for it. It's no surprise that they concentrate on marketing their business software to businesses though. That's who's going to pay for it. A CS department is going to use whatever the school uses and a non-profit is better served by Google Apps (which is discounted heavily for non-profits).
- rednaught 15y agoJust an FYI, Postini was an acquisition. There are many companies that provide filtering,spam detection.
- jonknee 15y agoYes, they bought best of breed spam filtering technology and gave it way for free to the whole world. It was a great acquisition.
- rednaught 15y agoGoogle charges for Postini's standalone service. Their integration of Postini's function into Gmail and it being "free" in exchange for some of your freedoms is the entire point of this discussion and the mailing list post.