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 …[Continue]
Gmail Tips
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….[Continue]
Kids Email Registry
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 …[Continue]
Neo-Nazi Spam
Coinciding with the sixtieth anniversary of the end of World War II, email users around the world have found their email boxes stuffed with German Neo-Nazi propaganda. In what appears to be the first time spam has been used to …[Continue]
CAPTCHA
Ever wonder why so many websites ask you to enter squiggly, distorted pass codes? They are using captcha to verify your humanity. A captcha is an automated test that humans can pass, but computers can not. To learn more, read …[Continue]
EOM
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 …[Continue]
Email News Alerts
Customized email news alerts are useful for keeping close track of breaking stories, or following any subject near and dear to your heart. Here are three to try: Yahoo! Alerts CNN.com Email Alerts….[Continue]
Joe Job
A Joe Job is spam mail that deliberately and specifically uses an incorrect from address in order to put the blame on that specific person. Although it common for viruses to forge from addresses, it is usually not done with …[Continue]
