I've been playing with RocketChat for a while and it's a fairly decent Slack alternative that's under active development. If you want to go off the record in a private chat, click the button, wait for the other person to confirm, and your conversation is now end to end encrypted. It's fairly easy to install if you want to self host, and they offer hosted versions too. I'm a fan.

I'll give a +1 for dspam. I run it on a couple of accounts via procmail under qmail and it works really well. When spam gets through to my inbox I just move it to a spam training folder and an hourly cron task passes that folder's contents back to dspam for training.

I remember The Spot! And back in those days, we had dial up internet access at my work.. with a caching proxy server.. and I used to use the front page of The Spot to see if the caching was working right..

Clear out your browser cache, request thespot.com, and see how fast it came up.. fast as you like? The proxy server's doing its thing! Slower than a dog? Something's broke in the computer room..

Ah, those were the days *sighs*

Whether it'll be successful this time round? Meh, anyone's guess.. I can't even remember why it shut down the first time.. how are they gonna make any money?