Comment Re:They presented to my organization (Score 1) 197
I'd rather not. Info I'm comfortable with: we're a non-profit that would be a recognizable selling point for Goodmail, and the meeting took place about a week before they announced their deal with AOL and Yahoo (so before AOL announced that they'd pay the fees for non-profits). The deal they were offering at the time was essentially giving it away (including hardware), so I know they hope to plaster our name all over their marketing.
As of yet, I've been able to fend off any further steps towards adoption.
My argument that Goodmail is harmful to the community, with examples such as mysql, apache, and horde mailing lists which we use to do things we could never afford from a commercial vendor, has fallen completely on deaf ears with management.
Fortunately, they accept for now that we don't want to tell anyone that they can unequivocally trust an email that purports to be from us, which is how Goodmail tried to sell their service. My main weapon here was being able to refer to previous conversations where I successfully shot down antivirus footers of the type "This email certified virus-free".
As of yet, I've been able to fend off any further steps towards adoption.
My argument that Goodmail is harmful to the community, with examples such as mysql, apache, and horde mailing lists which we use to do things we could never afford from a commercial vendor, has fallen completely on deaf ears with management.
Fortunately, they accept for now that we don't want to tell anyone that they can unequivocally trust an email that purports to be from us, which is how Goodmail tried to sell their service. My main weapon here was being able to refer to previous conversations where I successfully shot down antivirus footers of the type "This email certified virus-free".
