[Assp-user] help a journalist: what do you wish the CIO understood about fighting spam?

2007-01-10 Thread Esther Schindler
Hi, folks. I'm senior online editor at CIO.com, and I'm working on an article for which I'd very much like your help. There's often a lack of communication between techies and top company management. Maybe they don't want to hear about problems; perhaps you give them technical details that

Re: [Assp-user] help a journalist: what do you wish the CIO understood about fighting spam?

2007-01-10 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Hi Esther, If you would like just a quick blurb, then my response to your question, “If you could get your CIO (or top management) to understand one thing, just ONE thing, about fighting spam, what would it be?“, is simple: I would like top management to understand the mechanics of how email

Re: [Assp-user] help a journalist: what do you wish the CIO understood about fighting spam?

2007-01-10 Thread Esther Schindler
Hi, Michael! It's funny -- most of the people who have been answering me feel that the CIO _shouldn't_ have to know the mechanics of how spam works. Several people believe that the CIO's role isn't to mess with the technical details. Instead, the CIO should know about the effects of spam,

Re: [Assp-user] help a journalist: what do you wish the CIO understood about fighting spam?

2007-01-10 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
I would agree that a CIO shouldn't have to know the mechanics of how spam works - being that I would like to think that I do my job well enough so that my management does not need to know such things. This is one of numerous things that I would stipulate that users should never really need to