Welcome community plumbers (aka Drupal)
16 Jan 2010 3:36am GMT Towards the end of last year we loaded up the Drupal archives and subscribed to their active lists. Drupal is a pretty successful project with lots of real-world use and we figured they might be reasonably chatty online.As preparation for this post, I checked out the Drupal front page. I love a good analogy and their HTML <title> but a good smile on my face: <title>drupal.org | Community plumbing</title>It made me think we might re-consider the MarkMail title, given what we...
The wide world of Ubuntu: 1.9 million messages
13 Jan 2010 6:48pm GMT A few months ago, we loaded up the publicly available Ubuntu archives and subscribed to their active lists. MarkMail now searches 313 Ubuntu lists and 1,917,153 messages. The first Ubuntu list started in July 2004 and there are currently 200 active lists, recently accumulating 4,061 messages per day. Ubuntu is very much a world-wide project. Below is a recent snapshot of the message counts for Ubuntu lists associated with specific...
Magic Eraser Policy
9 Nov 2009 3:35am GMT If you've been around email long enough, you know there's a reason that gmail has that magic undo send feature. (Well, ok, once you see what it is, it's not that magic).Because of the nature of digital information, it's too easy to have that email end up somewhere you'd rather not see it. Once you hit send, you don't have much control over the copying process. That email immediately becomes part of your permanent record. And, well, you've probably been there yourself at one time or another,...
Easy Change
4 Nov 2009 5:32pm GMT As we look to make MarkMail pay for itself, it's pretty darn obvious that the traffic the site gets is sufficient to generate some revenue from advertising. A good number of well-known developer-centric sites display ads (e.g., sourceforge.net, www.xml.com, vim.org, linux.org, many others) with varying degrees of success. It even looks like msdn.com displays ads (albeit for other MS properties). And there are also sites like Expert Exchange that charge users a premium to search their archives,...
The New Guy
8 Oct 2009 11:17pm GMT Hi Folks,I'm the new guy and this is my inaugural post.I first ran into MarkMail a few years ago, during my tenure at Clearwell Systems. Back then, both Clearwell and MarkMail were building "search engines for email". If you didn't look deeply, you'd have thought we were competitors. But we weren't. And we aren't, still.At Clearwell, we knew we were breaking ground. Like many start-ups, we really didn't preconceive which applications our efforts would enable and which markets would find...