Jeez, I wasn't involved in the nomination process this year, so I completely missed the fact that Wikitravel is a nominee for the Webby Awards this year. I'm now a part of IADAS so there's a conflict-of-interest for me, but I'd recommend checking out the People's Voice Webby Voting.
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Sign your mailI find it a little mind-boggling how many people complain about problems of email identity, like spam, e-mail spoofing and phishing, yet don't do anything on their own side to encourage strong identity on email.
Everybody should use digital signatures on their email as a matter of course. It is absurdly easy to set up a GnuPG key for your email address. It takes only a few minutes. And you can sign up for an S/MIME key, too -- about $20/year, and supported even more widely by email clients.
And organizations should send out email with signatures, too. Welcome email, password updates, and the like should all be signed. Phishing gets a lot harder when consumers are used to digitally-signed mail.
If we're really serious about email abuse, we need to take the extra step at the client level.