July 28, 2003
Useit.Com: Gateway Pages Prevent PDF Shock.
If you distribute documents for printing or if you absolutely have to repurpose existing content into a substandard user experience, at least protect your users from nasty surprises. Create a gateway page for each PDF document and make sure that users are always guided through the gateway.
NY Times: Diverging Estimates of the Costs of Spam.
Gauging the cost of tiny bits of computer power and the value of many moments of wasted time, multiplied by millions of e-mail users, leads to big, if inevitably imprecise, numbers.
Network World: Mailblocks service simplifies challenge-response.
The latest version of Challenge/Response reduces the likelihood that senders will get challenged by Mailblocks by aggregating the valid responses from all Mailblocks users, according to Phil Goldman, Mailblocks' CEO. "We figured out this - if you send mail to me at Mailblocks, get challenged and respond, we know you're a human being," he said.
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