Now, in honor of my penpal, it’s only fitting that I write about spam today. I initially didn’t connect writing about spam today with him, but, well, I put that on the, uh, menu after Kim sent me some links yesterday and the date just happens to line up right.
If you’re like me, the volume […]
I want to give a shout out to some friends of mine who have helped me deal with a very unpleasant situation at work this week involving some major changes to one of the e-mail accounts for which I’m responsible. I thought installing a different client on my desktop machine, like elm, pine, or mutt, […]
I couldn’t help noticing the link to a spam recipe above the spam mailbox in Gmail. It used to be that my Gmail account would get no spam, so I rarely looked in the spam folder. Now, I dump it every few months. As much as I don’t like junk mail, one of the advantages […]
I would like a recommendation for an e-mail client. I am not at liberty to discuss what’s going on in great detail here, but basically I’ve been using elm for a particular e-mail account because of certain features it has I haven’t been able to find in another suitable client. The server this account and […]
I received an e-mail from someone I don’t know asking me to publicize an event among my colleagues. The event might have been of interest to a few of them. At the bottom was the standard confidentiality disclaimer. The disclaimer gave me an easy way not to share the event. I thought it was all […]
Hugh at gapingvoid points out a new book by tech writer Ben Hammersley called Hacking Gmail. It’s about neat things to do with Google’s e-mail service, like using it as a backup drive. Peter shares words of wisdom in the comments: since many of the hacks are against Google’s terms of service, if you already […]
I admit that I appreciate Google and Gmail’s humor and sometimes even find myself laughing at it. Have you seen Gmail’s pun:
"This holiday season,
we hope yule log-in to Gmail."
*j groans, then laughs
Many of us are receiving a German lesson because of the flood of German spam e-mails. The Yahoo! account using their built-in spam filter received about 100. The other one with no spam filter received nothing. One of my work accounts received more than 650 of them over the weekend and continues to see about […]
After discovering he’s having a difficult time keeping up with his e-mail, Steven Cohen of Library Stuff publishes his contact information and suggests people use alternative methods of contacting him, like telephone, instant messaging, and Skype.
I’ll be curious to know how well encouraging others to use alternate methods works for him. I feel like if […]