AOL, Gmail, Hotmail and an email’s journey
Four interesting things from the world of email in general:
- ClickZ provides a brief overview
of an email’s journey from the time you click Send to the message’s arrival at its destination. - According to CNet News , a judge has ordered that a defendant needs to hand over all his email to the plaintiff. What’s interesting about this is that the defendant’s email is housed with Gmail. Gmail, you will remember, says in its privacy policy that deleted emails “may remain in our offline backup systems” indefinitely. “Delete it and it’s gone” doesn’t seem to apply with Gmail. That’s bad luck for the defendant.
- In The New York Times, David Pogue posts a funny email from Hotmail about how to deal with unwanted email from the provider. It runs, “Free Hotmail users: If you do not wish to receive Hotmail member letters, you may close your Hotmail account.”
- The New York Times also has an op-ed piece on Goodmail (registration required, but worth it) , the company that has been hired by AOL to provide “safe” delivery of wanted emails to its customers. There was a fair bit of coverage about this new “email tax” a few weeks ago.
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