Gary Eckstein Internet 1 email, email lists, spam, spamming
For a long time I have wondered why email spammers even make the effort with their untargeted and mass mailouts offering all sorts of ‘enticing’ products and services; surely all the offers from scantily clad ladies or the promise of longer lasting sex will be a sure sell! Alas for the spammers, my email filters [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 email, google, google wave, wave
Even the most brilliant and useful products don’t always succeed (XBZ8Y7BC5NVK). Google Wave shows how being a truly great software product isn’t good enough; luck is certainly an element of product success as is marketing (look at how successful Apple marketing is) and other factors. Google has announced that Wave won’t continue to be developed [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 0 email, email client, email clients, gmail, google, hotmail, IBM, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft, microsoft exchange, microsoft outlook, mozilla, mozilla thunderbird, outlook exchange, Thunderbird, Windows Live, Windows Live Mail
Using Mozilla Thunderbird, Microsoft Live Mail or a similar email application? Do you have problems seeing or opening attachments in emails sent from Outlook? Join the club! Unfortunately some of the non Microsoft Exchange dependant email clients such as Microsoft Live Mail and Thunderbird are unable to process (open) attachments sent from Outlook via Exchange [...]
Gary Eckstein General Technology 2 bing, email, google, icmail, pop3, SMTP
Back in 2006 I started using an email account with the free email provider icmail.net. I always used the icmail.net account as a secondary email address and stopped accessing the email about two years ago. I recently had a need to access my icmail.net email messages however found that icmail.net is extremely unstable these days [...]
Gary Eckstein Internet 0 CAPTCHA, email, email address, hcard, html, junk mail, lottery scams, microformats, OCR, reCAPTCHA, spam, spam filters, spammers, spamming, unsolicited email
If you have ever put your email address on your website you will know how quickly spambots get your email addres and email huge numbers of messages to your address. There are various scripts (mostly javascript) available which attempt to fool spambots (i.e. hide your email address from spammers) however these scripts are largely ineffective. [...]
