Crystal Clear

We all get spam. We also pay (indirectly) for people to do their best to stop spam before it reaches us (email filters).

Another company tried to do more, and strike back at those sending the spam by flood the spam sender’s server, but this “campaign of intimidation was followed by a sophisticated denial of service attack” against the spam busting company.

Is it even possible to get rid of spammers? Can anyone keep trying when spammers have much more money and resources at their disposal?

Start by reading more here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/17/blue_security_folds/

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The OpenDocument Format (ODF), a file format for office documents (word processing, spreadsheet, presentation), has been approved as an ISO standard. Press release

So what? This means that if you save your information in ODF, you will always have the ability to extract your information from the file. Programs comes and go, and with them go file formats. If a program no longer exists to open your ODF file, since the structure of the file is a freely available standard, you could write or have someone write a program to access the information.

A fellow volunteer on the OpenOffice.org users mailing list spoke about file formats that are kept secret or are copyrighted. In effect the company that controls the files format is saying:

“We don’t really own your house. Just the front door and all the keys.”

Please learn about ODF and the ODF Alliance and see who supports this openness.

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