Those of you interested in spam (and sadly I don’t mean the luncheon meat) might be interested in the Spam Conference happening Friday, March 30, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). If you happen to have a paper about spam lying around, perhaps it might fit what they’re looking for. The deadline for entries [...]
Steven Cohen blogs temporary e-mail address services for those times when people need to use an e-mail address, but don’t want to use their own. How many times do we wish we didn’t have to give up an e-mail address just to use a Web site, read a newspaper, etc.?
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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