Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

About

I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

Get a Handle on E-Mail

Yes, your customers can use Hotmail, Yahoo mail or even ZDNet mail for their hosted e-mail, but it might not be a wise move. After all, free e-mail services are as far beyond accountability as the moon is from Earth. When your customers want to get serious about e-mail, you have two options: Install an […]

Cleaning Up Spam

Except for the senders, no one likes spam. Indeed a recent Gartner Group study found that a third of ISP customers want their service provider to stop the spam flow. Fortunately, you can use antispam server programs to block those nagging messages. Most mail servers come with some type of built-in spam protection. Although, that […]

Small Servers for Small Biz

Suppose you only need to handle mail for a few dozen to a few hundred users? There are products out there made just for you. Sure, you can deploy Sendmail or Post.Office. But there also are easy-to-use Windows NT and Windows 2000 packages for situations where you want to install and forget simple e-mail servers. […]