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Jim Mirkalami - the actual story revealed - Quit Your Day Job

A while ago, I deleted a comment left on an old post. I thought it was Spam, but I wasn’t sure. There was something about it, though, that made me research it a little bit, and I found that it was being left on a lot of blogs, which reinforced the notion that it was spam. The real story has come out now, and it’s mildly interesting.

Turns out the spammy comments were made by this guy, Seyed, to bump a negative story about his brother, Jim, off page one of a Google search. Interesting, if not the most appreciated, tactic.

Anyway, on Quit Your Day Job, Lee got Seyed to come out and answer a few questions. Based on his responses, it seems like Seyed reads my blog with some degree of regularity. To that, I say: Thanks! Please don’t spam me anymore, but I appreciate you bumping up my stats a bit. Hope you enjoy the posts.

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The post is missing a few details (perhaps because they aren’t available), but it looks like the popular Eudora email client from Qualcomm is being completely re-written, using the Mozilla Thunderbird code-base as its engine, and released to the public as open source.

Eudora is a well-loved if somewhat outdated email client that many people (Qualcomm claims millions of users, which sounds accurate) continue to use just for its unique feature set. Eudora can tell you if emails in your inbox contain inflammatory language before you open them, and it has some robust spam features. There’s a sponsored version of the client, as well, and my guess is that the ad-supported version will go the way of the ghost when Eudora becomes open source.

Supposedly, the open source version will have all the features current users expect. I used Eudora for a while, and just recently (within the year) switched to Thunderbird. Eudora was definitely outdated. The thing I liked about it, though, were the statistics it kept. I hope that makes it to the new version.

Technorati Tags: Eudora, Thunderbird, email client, productivity, open source

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