Email

Using Gmail as a Spam Filter

June 19, 2006

If your inbox is overrun with spam, and your ISP (or corporate mail server) does not offer a spam solution that works for you, you can try using Google’s free email service Gmail as a front-end spam filter. Read more in this article from Jeremy Zawodny: Using Gmail as My Spam Filter.

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Text Messaging from Email

March 14, 2006

Although text messages (also known as SMS or Short Message Service) are designed for cell phones, it is easy to send a text message to a cell phone via email. Most cell carriers provide a unique email address based on your ten-digit phone number. To find your cell phone’s SMS email address, try this page [...]

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Tone of Messages

February 21, 2006

Be careful of your tone in instant messages and email, because a recent study shows that the recipient has only a 50-50 chance of correctly understanding whether you were being sarcastic or honest, or what you really meant by your message. Research conducted by psychologists Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago and Justin Kruger [...]

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Email Tips

December 13, 2005

Email can be tremendous time sink, so even small improvements in efficiency can have a big effect. I like the five email tips Merlin Mann shares his 43 Folders blog. Tip Number One: “Either turn off automatic checking completely, or set it to something reasonable, like every twenty minutes or so”

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Email Graphics

November 8, 2005

Posting your email address on a web page in a machine readable format is simply asking for trouble because thousands of robots crawl the Web looking for email addresses to add to spam mailing lists. One way to avoid this is not use text or HTML (which is machine readable) but instead put your email [...]

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Gmail Tips

September 26, 2005

Gmail’s Labels are a lot like a folders for sorting email messages, except that a message can be assigned more than one Label. Read more Gmail tips at Google and at Jim’s Gmail Tips.

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Kids Email Registry

July 12, 2005

Parents in Michigan can now register their’s minor children’s email addresses on a statewide do-not-email list that allows for prosecution if anyone that advertises an adult-only product (liquor, tobacco, dating, etc) to a registered email address. Utah is gearing up to enact a similar law. For more breaking news on this topic, try this Yahoo! [...]

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EOM

January 11, 2005

When an email message consists of just a few words, such as “Book report due tomorrow” or “Softball game canceled,” the entire message can be put in the subject line. To alert the recipient that the message does NOT need to be downloaded and opened, put “EOM” (an acronym for “End of Message”) at the [...]

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Email Privacy

November 15, 2004

Since email is not secure, never send private information (such as sensitive health data, your credit card number, or bank PIN) in an email message. A good rule of thumb is to only email only the sort of information you’d willing to send on a postcard. To learn more about secure email, take a look [...]

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Bigger E-Mail Accounts

July 19, 2004

Users of Web-based e-mail services have Google to thank for huge recent increases in their storage limits. After Google announced 1 GB of storage for its free Gmail service (still in beta test), all the major e-mail players followed suit. Yahoo.com now offers 100 MB of free storage; MSN Hotmail has 250 MB of free [...]

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