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 [...]
Here’s some humor related to an e-mail attachment didn’t come through–not that receiving threatening e-mails is funny because it isn’t. It is a rather serious matter that should be handled via the proper authorities.
I doubt I’ll ever be able to get rid of those 50 invites I have.
I felt okay about the 100+ e-mail messages I receive daily until I read Stever Robbins’ estimate that it takes 3 minutes to deal with each message, which amounts to 5 hours of e-mail management a day. Wow. No wonder I can’t get anything done!
Robbins shares a number of valuable tips, like how to summarize [...]
Rebecca’s having a contest for the best Valentine’s Day sonnet about blogging and the holiday. The prize: a Gmail invite.
Addendum: Rebecca has a few follow-up posts, including a sonnet from David Weinberger. More are on Weblogs at Harvard Law blog. It’s so nice to see new content on that site. It’s especially appropriate since it’s [...]
beSpacific reports the Texas attorney general is suing a major spammer.
I received the first spam e-mail in my Gmail account today. I can’t remember when I opened the account, but I’ve had it for at least 688 unread blog posts–at least that’s how many confirmation e-mails from a few of my blogs are sitting there. Sixty to seventy percent of the e-mail I receive in [...]
The recent flood of comment spam (88 since Tuesday) brought another problem with Gmail to my attention.
Several blogs e-mail new comments to my Gmail account. Not only does the way Gmail threads and groups messages annoy me, but there are inconsistencies with the way it counts new messages, perhaps because of how it groups [...]
This post is dedicated to those guys who made high school much more enjoyable because of the Spam graffiti they wrote everywhere.
In the age of comment spam and spam e-mail, it’s good for this Wired article to remind us that Spam can also be food.
"This place is 16,500 square feet of pure pork fun," said [...]