AOL's push to reduce spam lands Goodmail in hot seat
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The small Silicon Valley start-up behind AOL's new anti-spam push should be popping champagne corks.
Deals with AOL and Yahoo have landed Goodmail Systems on the high-tech map and offered the strongest validation yet for its product.
So why does CEO Richard Gingras feel like he's caught in the eye of an e-mail hurricane? 'I'm not too thrilled about the recent attention,' he says.
It's the fallout from being the technology provider in a scrum between AOL, the No. 1 Internet service provider, which plans to charge businesses for commercial e-mail, and a coalition of 50 companies claiming the plan is e-mail taxation. The squabble has obscured what many e-mail experts, such as Eric Allman, chief science officer at e-mail security firm Sendmail, say is a sensible, effective technology to blunt spam.
The small Silicon Valley start-up behind AOL's new anti-spam push should be popping champagne corks.Deals with AOL and Yahoo have landed Goodmail Systems on the high-tech map and offered the strongest validation yet for its product.
So why does CEO Richard Gingras feel like he's caught in the eye of an e-mail hurricane? 'I'm not too thrilled about the recent attention,' he says.
It's the fallout from being the technology provider in a scrum between AOL, the No. 1 Internet service provider, which plans to charge businesses for commercial e-mail, and a coalition of 50 companies claiming the plan is e-mail taxation. The squabble has obscured what many e-mail experts, such as Eric Allman, chief science officer at e-mail security firm Sendmail, say is a sensible, effective technology to blunt spam.
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