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  Let me get off your *&%$ list

  This is a plea to web designers, programmers and, most particularly, marketing people, to stop annoying us when we want to unsubscribe from your &^%$#@!* stupid, er, sorry, not interesting to us, email lists. It's also a plea for all of you IT people to talk to these groups in your company and convince them to do some "right thinking" about this issue.

  By Mark Gibbs | 12 May, 2012 01:24

  Tags: unsubscribe, unsolicited commercial email, UCE, Toyota, subscription, software, email lists, email, commercial email

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  Email services company Return Path sets up shop in Australia

  Email services company Return Path has set up shop in Sydney, marking the seventh country in which it has a local office.

  By Rohan Pearce | 23 March, 2012 16:15

  Tags: email, marketing

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  Warning: you may be an e-hoarder

  Hoarding shows are popular these days. Hoarders, Hoarding: Buried Alive, Confessions: Animal Hoarding and on and on. The images are consistent: Boxes stacked to the ceilings. Piles of newspapers dating back to the Nixon era. Feral cats skittering behind furniture. Empty cans of cat food, beans and soup scattered everywhere.

  By Jeff Vance | 05 March, 2012 22:33

  Tags: applications, Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, data mining, data retention, e-hoarding, email, hardware systems, inbox, network storage, software

• Telstra reports issue with BigPond email accounts

  Telstra (ASX: TEL) has confirmed that a small number of BigPond email customers have not been receiving mail since the weekend beginning 4 February.

  By Hamish Barwick | 06 February, 2012 16:48

  Tags: bigpond, email, Telstra

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  Gmail Backup, a recipe for happiness

  Before I get to this week's main topic I must give a big thumbs-up to a book that all of you who like to cook will thoroughly enjoy: "Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food" by Jeff Potter (pub. O'Reilly).

  By Mark Gibbs | 16 December, 2011 12:27

  Tags: cooking, email, Food, gmail, Google, hacking, hacks, IMAP, intrusion, recipes, security, software

• Use Gmail IMAP with your desktop e-mail client

  Working with Gmail can be a lot nicer if you use a desktop e-mail program instead of Gmail's Web-based interface.

  By Rick Broida | 29 May, 2010 06:47

  Tags: email, gmail

• How to: Save and retrieve Attachments

  Today, let's look at a very common source of confusion for novice users: saving and retrieving file attachments.

  By Rick Broida | 24 January, 2010 04:24

  Tags: email, Windows 7

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  Be more productive in Microsoft Outlook

  Do you depend on Microsoft Outlook for your e-mail and scheduling needs? Are you annoyed with the e-mail client? Well, join the club--thousands of Outlook users are lobbying Microsoft for improvements in the next version. But this week let's not just complain about Outlook; I'm here to tell you how to make it better.

  By Rick Broida | 29 July, 2009 00:01

  Tags: email, microsoft outlook

• Gmail expert tips: How to tame your inbox

  Gmail ushered in a whole new way of accessing and managing e-mail. Many people think that it's a major improvement over the old desktop-app approach.

  By Adam Pash | 22 July, 2009 00:38

  Tags: email, gmail, Google

• Seven ways to improve your e-mail messages

  You are judged by the writing style, tone, language, and mistakes in your e-mails every single day. We're all so optimistic we believe people will overlook our e-mail typos and mistakes, while at the same time we privately label those who send us sloppy e-mails as careless, confused, or ineffective.

  By James E. Gaskin | 15 July, 2009 07:51

  Tags: email, email etiquette

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  Future world: Today, the Internet - tomorrow, the Internet of Things?

  Embedded in the heel of his shoe was an early example of the Internet of Things -- but Andrew Duncan didn't know it at the time.

  By Lamont Wood | 10 November, 2011 02:22

  Tags: email, internet, Internet of Things

• Who’s using Twitter? Some surprising answers

  Eight percent of online Americans may use Twitter, as the Pew Internet & American Life Project reported on Thursday. But does that mean your small business should use the service in its marketing and communications efforts?

  By Katherine Noyes | 11 December, 2010 06:20

  Tags: email, instant messaging, Internet-based applications and services, social networks, twitter

• Did e-mail and the Internet kill the 9-5 workday?

  Have you checked your work e-mailtoday? If you're like most employees in the United States and United Kingdom, the answer is yes despite the fact that it is not only the weekend, but an extended holiday weekend for most workers in the US. A day off is becoming an increasingly foreign concept as workers stay connected virtually 24/7.

  By Tony Bradley | 06 September, 2010 23:43

  Tags: applications, email, e-mail, harris, Harris Interactive, instant messaging, internet, Internet-based applications and services, software, web mail

• Gmail wish list: five features we'd like to see

  In the early days, Gmail hooked us with its innovative features, like the way it threaded together e-mails under the same subject.

  By Jared Newman | 24 July, 2009 01:55

  Tags: email, gmail

• Analysis: Is HTML e-mail dangerous for your PC, or just your eyeballs?

  Last week's online protest against Microsoft Outlook is turning out to be a tempest-in-a-Tweet.

  By Eric Lai | 30 June, 2009 05:33

  Tags: email, html, Microsoft, microsoft outlook, twitter

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