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Washington Post: Faster, Mightier Web Mail -- For a Price.

PC Magazine: Oddpost Makes Webmail Real.

A California company is betting that people will pay for Web e-mail if it's faster and more powerful than today's clunky free Web-mail services. The new e-mail offering from Oddpost looks and works like Microsoft Outlook and similar desktop programs, with the same simple drag-and-drop transfer of messages to folders -- but it runs entirely in a Web browser's window.

I signed up for Oddpost a while back- should be about time I get a renewel email. This is by far the best web based email I have ever seen. Elegant, easy to use, and now with killer spam filtering. It is $30 a year, but you get what you pay for. My hotmail account used to get hundreds of emails a day. I get none, NONE, on my Oddpost. I have features that I am used to from using Outlook. These guys seem to be pretty funny also. Go check out their website and maybe try out a demo.

      

Voting machine manufacturers produce "paper trail" to make a sake.

Mercury News: Suddenly a paper trail is possible.

In a major turn of events, all three voting machine makers competing for Santa Clara County's contract have told election officials that they're prepared to offer paper copies of touch-screen ballots for voters to inspect. Better yet, they'll include this feature at no cost to the county.

The vendors' concession is a big victory for computer scientists who've been clamoring for a voter-verifiable paper audit. It's also an offer supervisors have no reason to refuse.

Everybody in Georgia should now contact Cathy Cox, maybe by email. Demand she adds a paper trail so that Georgia's voting can be audited. We need faith in our voting system.

      

Tit for tat?

AJC: Man shoots girl for throwing snowballs.

A man whose daughter was hit with a snowball by a group of girls returned to the scene and opened fire with a gun, critically wounding a 10-year-old youngster, police said.

Guess we have to be glad it wasn't a water ballon fight. Who knows what he would have done then.