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Entries Tagged as 'Email'

Two more Macintouch reports about…

February 19th, 2004 · Comments Off

Two more Macintouch reports about Mail.app Yesterday and today, Macintouch ran more details about the Mail.app crashes which are more clearly connected to Junk Mail filtering. I haven’t had the problem for quite some time, since I — like many of these people — realized through personal experience and similar accounts that certain emails seem [...]

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One more way to fight…

October 30th, 2003 · Comments Off

One more way to fight the spammers Since the California law that goes into effect on January 1, 2004 won’t slow down the international spammers, I was glad to find another low-tech way to slow the harvesting of email addresses. Vin Crosbie pointed out this handy tip for encoding an email address in a way [...]

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Software requests

October 8th, 2003 · Comments Off

So many ideas in the email space… here’s one more: Steven Johnson has an idea: “It would be a huge help to me if my email software would automatically organize incoming messages based on 1) whether I’ve responded to the sender before, and 2) on average how quickly I’ve responded to the sender in the [...]

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Most blogged article of the…

July 29th, 2003 · Comments Off

I must have seen this linked on at least five blogs I read via NNW. So why not add to the fun? BBC: Loss of e-mail ‘worse than divorce’ Not scientific (800 techies), and not accurate (sponsored by Veritas, in an effort to sell more email backup software), but even the BBC knows how to [...]

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