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 [...]
For Friday’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Vincent Kiernan reports on whether open-source software can effectively solve the problems of unsoliticited e-mail at colleges and universities. Focusing on SpamAssassin, Kiernan discusses why institutions turn toward open-source solutions and what some of the commercial competitors are. The statistics about spam on college campus show how overwhelming [...]
A few of you are amazed at the amount of e-mail I receive, so I’m posting this for your amusement. I missed four days of work this week because of my talk in Wisconsin. I got distracted when I began downloading my e-mail, so I didn’t see the initial number, but when I looked, it [...]
I mentioned my e-mail problem the other day. This Transform article about archiving e-mail focuses on an e-mail archive for multiple users, but its seven items also hold relevance for people like me with thousands of messages in an inbox.
(Repeat to self: "I do not need to save everything.")
It does not, however, address time management [...]
A colleague pointed me to this article about knowledge management (KM) and blogging. The section that I found particularly interesting talks about how e-mail programs have become the key tool of the knowledge worker, even though people use them for many things they weren’t necessarily designed for, like storing knowledge and documents. This has me [...]
I apologize for this digression, but I know many of you use the .com e-mail address I’m having problems with. Tonight, I learned that mail coming from the Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog’s profile are disappearing in Spamfilterland. (more) Sometimes I point to that profile to have people contact me about something on this blog [...]
A friend of mine figured out that I’m having problems with one of my .com e-mail addresses. We discovered today that the e-mail she’s been sending me has been magically diverted into Spamfilterland. Unfortunately, because of the way the filters are designed, it doesn’t look like I can tell the system that her e-mail is [...]
Using the CAN SPAM act passed in January, Massachusetts’ attorney general is suing a company that’s been sending unsolicited e-mail about mortgages. It’s supposedly the first lawsuit using the act. The e-mails violate the act on several counts.
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