Tracy Mooney, a participant in McAfee’s Spammed Persistently All Month (S.P.A.M.) experiment, tells some of the highlights of her experience.

In his blog, Peter Presnell wonders if there is a future for LotusScript. In testing Notes 8.5 Beta, Peter finds neither the @ command language or LotusScript seem to be fully supported while support has been expanded for JavaScript.

On March 31, 2008 McAfee began an experiment – just how much SPAM would someone receive if their e-mail was not protected. The results are something every e-mail admin is already aware of. Volunteers from around the world tracked their mail for a month.

The BBC News offers a synopsis of the results on the experiment.

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape, has joined the board of Facebook. He is expected to bring a wealth of experience to Facebook.

In separate articles Luis Suarez and Ed Brill, both of IBM, offer some suggestions on managing the flood of e-mail to your inbox.

Why do you invest in technology? eWeek’s Eric Lundquist has always argued there are really two reasons. The first reason is to save some money as you make your company more efficient. The second reason is to accelerate your company’s ability to grow. In an up economy, the investments usually favor the growth part of the equation. In a down economy, the pendulum swings to trying to save money. Right now, you are seeing the saving part of the equation come to the forefront.

There’s policy, and then there’s real life. Users often make inappropriate requests from the help desk and its techs. Look out for these big ones, and make sure that your support staff is prepared to refuse them.

Following a rise in the levels of risk it discovers when scanning enterprise email systems for inappropriate images, specialist risk-mitigation software vendor PixAlert has released ImageGuard MailAssessor, a free downloadable tool which allows companies to rapidly check for potential image risk in their email systems. It’s widely recognised that outbound emailing of inappropriate content damages company reputations and brand equity, while internal distribution can undermine employee welfare and productivity.

Not all managers are afraid of technology. However, there are some Nancy Hand would like to see exercise a little more restraint before they click that button. There’s nothing like a senior manager saying, ‘..but I just…’, to get her nervous tic going.

Read this DominoPower article.

GFI Software, developer of network security, content security and messaging software, has launched a white paper to explain what NDR spam is all about and why spammers have resorted to this effective method to distribute unsolicited mail.

Research shows that up to 90% of emails received by companies are spam, and spammers have adopted a variety of methods to bypass spam filters used in anti-spam software. In the beginning, spam was mainly text based but over the past few years, spammers have resorted to using embedded images and attaching common file types such as mp3s and Excel documents in emails to gain access to mailboxes. Another option is NDR or non-delivery report spam.