Written by Carl E. Reid
closeAuthor: Carl E. Reid
Name: Carl E. Reid
Email: creid3005@gmail.com
Site: http://www.iTechSpeak.com
About: Developing his career from the mail room to the board room, Carl E. Reid has achieved success by skillfully blending 40 years of technology and business intelligence experience with his passion for helping companies succeed. Carl is founder and CEO of NetTECH Systems Reid & Associates, Inc., an emerging technology consulting company located in the New York City area. One of his specialties is 15 years as a collaboration and email infrastructure consultant. He has implemented and supported Lotus Notes/Domino and other types of SMTP gateway/network configurations in small to large global companies up to 33,000 employees. Some of his clients have included IBM, Citi, JPMChase, Oxygen, LVMH - Moet Hennessy, MeadWestvaco, non-profits and professional organizations.
Carl is a Savvy Business Owner, Public Speaker and Author. His articles have appeared in Network World, Computer Monthly magazines and hundreds of web sites. Combining business technology consulting with professional blogging, Carl specializes in advising clients how to best leverage the Internet as a tool for high impact visibility. Carl's speaking style combines humor with expertise, and his advice is always down-to-earth and practical.
He personally publishes Library of Congress recognized newsletter blog, http://www.SavvyIntrapreneur.com and http://www.iTechSpeak.com. Carl wrote the original "Professional Blogger Job Description", being used as standard document within companies. As a business career coach, Carl teaches professionals how to run their career as a profitable business.See Authors Posts (56) on August 19, 2008
As every experienced network administrator knows, standardization lowers the total cost of ownership. Creating standards lowers helpdesk support calls and facilitates easier maintenance. Companies establish standards for everyone using the same software and hardware. Server hardware configurations are standard for every new application implementation. Each server uses the same hard drive configuration, same memory chips and all software service packs are all the same version. So issues encountered with any server around the world can be easily resolved. Continue reading Vanity Be Thy Email Name»
Written by Carl E. Reid
closeAuthor: Carl E. Reid
Name: Carl E. Reid
Email: creid3005@gmail.com
Site: http://www.iTechSpeak.com
About: Developing his career from the mail room to the board room, Carl E. Reid has achieved success by skillfully blending 40 years of technology and business intelligence experience with his passion for helping companies succeed. Carl is founder and CEO of NetTECH Systems Reid & Associates, Inc., an emerging technology consulting company located in the New York City area. One of his specialties is 15 years as a collaboration and email infrastructure consultant. He has implemented and supported Lotus Notes/Domino and other types of SMTP gateway/network configurations in small to large global companies up to 33,000 employees. Some of his clients have included IBM, Citi, JPMChase, Oxygen, LVMH - Moet Hennessy, MeadWestvaco, non-profits and professional organizations.
Carl is a Savvy Business Owner, Public Speaker and Author. His articles have appeared in Network World, Computer Monthly magazines and hundreds of web sites. Combining business technology consulting with professional blogging, Carl specializes in advising clients how to best leverage the Internet as a tool for high impact visibility. Carl's speaking style combines humor with expertise, and his advice is always down-to-earth and practical.
He personally publishes Library of Congress recognized newsletter blog, http://www.SavvyIntrapreneur.com and http://www.iTechSpeak.com. Carl wrote the original "Professional Blogger Job Description", being used as standard document within companies. As a business career coach, Carl teaches professionals how to run their career as a profitable business.See Authors Posts (56) on August 8, 2008
GFI MailEssentials does an excellent job of leveraging third party blacklists such as ORDB, SpamHaus, Spamcop. This tool protects your email users from receiving spam. What do you do, if your company email server gets blacklisted? “No way” you say. This scenario can and does happen to companies that run a legitimate and ethical business.
Being blacklisted can temporarily put a chokehold on company communications. It’s like being an innocent person on a spammer wanted flyer in the post office. This situation can have a direct impact on company profits.
Not locking down your server to prevent relaying is not the only reason an email server can be blacklisted. Although there are many reasons, at this moment it’s not important why this happened. What’s important is to quickly coordinate getting your SMTP server off the blacklists. Continue reading Being Blacklisted Can Choke a Company»