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If the number of e-mails rises as quickly as predicted, we'll soon be doing nothing else than managing our e-mail.
Harvard Law's Jonathan Zittrain writes that the filtering of Internet content is on the upswing, a trend that--left unchecked--threatens to undo a basic underpinning of the global cybernetwork.
Managed properly, e-mail filtering software can reduce the risks spam brings to your network. How can you tune your filter so it stops spam without choking off enterprise e-mail?
A government e-mail systems lockdown has kept popular BlackBerry handhelds off-limits at many Australian government departments, but a simple fix has changed that.
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