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Just an FYI, Postini was an acquisition. There are many companies that provide filtering,spam detection.

• jonknee 15y ago
  Yes, 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 ago
    Google 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.
    • jonknee 15y ago
      The OP said they should license it (the spam filtering portion specifically). They do. If you don't want to pay you can also use it for free. Simply put, I don't see his point.
    • eitally 15y ago
      Gmail doesn't use Postini for security/filtering. That's all Google/Gmail.