[dba-Tech] New mail

Hi Jim

Yes, time may show.
We don't use Skype so I cannot tell about any improvement in the service. However, it's a top priority area for MS so I believe it has or will be the case.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence
Sendt: 12. juni 2014 17:16
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: Re: [dba-Tech] New mail

Hi Gustav:

You may be right. If you read the documentation carefully though, there is a suggestion of prime user rates. I would suspect that heavy users would be charged and their contribution will go to financing more equipment. AFAICS, if this mail server Startup is successful, it will become less of a "Mum and Pop" type company.   

Many companies designing similar type packages have decided to use a Bit Torrent structure because it requires less space, for there are no capacity over-head issues, as the data is never really within the central servers, Performance is then only relative to how many people are using the service at any one time.

There are many application built around Bit Torrent technology but I am not aware of a well used mail solution.

The original Skype was built around a BitTorrent structure but within an area of limited users it performance would drop. That was because it segmented its network. When Microsoft took the controlling interest, Skype was then re-designed and centralized. Whether a VoIP system will function more reliably on a BT or centralized network is the question...one you might be able to answer.       

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gustav Brock" <gustav at cactus.dk>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 11:30:33 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] New mail

Hi Jim

The setup of ProtonMail should work. However, as can be seen already, a limitation is that they rely on own server capacity.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] På vegne af Jim Lawrence
Sendt: 11. juni 2014 00:10
Til: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Emne: [dba-Tech] New mail

Security and email are becoming a solid consideration is offices and homes everywhere.

The question is how personal or business security can be acquired. See attached link, to an article, that is a well laid out over view of the issues and solutions.

https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org

To have a secure email account it must be protected end-to-end. A new startup has positioned themselves within Switzerland as the country has the toughest privacy rules and they are outside US, UK or any other country's legal jurisdiction, for that matter, so they can not be forced into compliance, now or at some time in the future. Check it out:

https://protonmail.ch

Jim