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Date: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 3:14 PM -0700
From: Esther Schindler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Dovecot] help a journalist: What do you wish the CIO understood
about fighting spam?
Hi, folks. I'm senior online editor at CIO.com, and I'm working on an
article for which I'd very much like your help.
There's often a lack of communication between techies and top company
management. Maybe they don't want to hear about problems; perhaps you give
them technical details that are far more granular than they want to know.
But dealing with spam is a topic that every e-mail admin has to cope with
-- and I'm not sure that the CIO knows the real issues.
I have the ear of the boss, however. Essentially, I'm trying to put
together the collected wisdom of e-mail and network admins in a fashion
that CIOs will understand. Or at least one teeny corner of it.
So I have a very simple question to pose to you:
***If you could get your CIO (or top management) to understand one thing,
just ONE thing, about fighting spam, what would it be?***
And the follow-up: why did you pick that one item?
Feel free to share anecdotes, horror stories, even success stories. While
I hope that every CIO will read this article, I also hope that it becomes
the document you bring to a new manager ("Here: this is what's important
to me").
I'm sure there are plenty of other things that you wish your CIO grokked,
whether about e-mail administration or other topics (not the least of
which is "the e-mail admin is underpaid"). But I do have to limit myself
somehow, and "what's important about fighting spam" has a lot of leeway.
I'll be sure to stop by here (as I expect others want to participate in
the conversation), but feel free to cc me with your response or send me a
private message.
I'm hoping for a rather fast turnaround on this article, so please blurt
out your first thoughts rather than plan on writing a nice, leisurely
response. If all goes well, I'd like to get this article posted in the
next couple of weeks.
Please be sure to let me know how to refer to you in the article; the
usual format is &name, &title, &company and &location ("Esther Schindler
is a senior developer at the Groovy Corporation in Scottsdale Arizona").
If you give me some kind of context I'm willing to work without one. That
is, I do need some identifying characteristics to give the article
credibility ("Esther works at a large finance company in the Southwest").
Esther Schindler
senior online editor, CIO.com
http://blogs.cio.com/blog/37
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Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:22 AM -0700
From: Esther Schindler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Kenneth Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] help a journalist: What do you wish the CIO
understood about fighting spam?
It's MOSTLY written and sitting on my hard drive. I was breathtakingly
thrilled to get a lot of good input from all sorts of email admins (I have
30 pages of notes). But then I went out of town for a week, came back,
and am setting up to leave for ANOTHER week out of town. So much for my
grand plans.
Let's see if I can get this article finished while I'm on the road. I sure
do want to see it posted.
--Esther
(who yes, is still listening)
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