Is your information correct?
Written on 2 Aug, 2009 at 15:43 in Emails, Featured Stories, Others, Our Experiments, Profiling | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
How easy or difficult do you find hunting email addresses, phone numbers or social networking profiles of a person you wish to know about? I know you would Google out their names and look out for maximum amount of information... (Continue reading)
Gmail Hacked? Here’s how to spot.
Written on 29 Jun, 2009 at 9:49 in Email Best Practices, Emails, Featured Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
If you rely on Gmail as much as I do, you probably worry about someone hacking into your Gmail account? Well, among the advanced features on Google’s mailing service there is a cool little trick that you can use to... (Continue reading)
Email Best Practice #5
Written on 2 Apr, 2009 at 10:22 in Email Best Practices, Emails | viewed times and users have made 4 comments so far
Using public computers or even your friend’s laptop to check your emails can be lethal. Can you really trust them? Your friends might be more interested in knowing your secrets than someone else’s. Are you really sure that they don’t... (Continue reading)
Predators: Internet Scams
Written on 31 Mar, 2009 at 11:46 in Emails, Featured Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
There are some very dangerous predators prowling around the web. Take for example advance-fee frauds, also known as the Nigerian scam, or the 419 scam, named after Article 419 of the Nigerian Legal Code. Check it out on the web... (Continue reading)
Mass e-mailing as a defensive weapon in the workplace
Written on 30 Mar, 2009 at 8:07 in Best Practices, Emails, Featured Stories | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
From the best practice entries on this blog you may be getting the impression that I am recommending you stop mass e-mailing. Well not quite! There is one situation that I recommend to all my students: using mass e-mails as... (Continue reading)
Email Best Practice #4
Written on 17 Mar, 2009 at 15:39 in Email Best Practices, Emails | viewed times and users have made 3 comments so far
To avoid spam, ideally users must drop themselves off the mailing lists of any friend or colleague who indulges in forwarding emails to dozens of people collected together in ‘To’ lists. Every time your address is passed around, it opens... (Continue reading)
Email Best Practice #3
Written on 17 Mar, 2009 at 12:26 in Email Best Practices, Emails | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
If you are planning to start off your own website and need to list your contact email address on the ‘Contact Us’ page of your site, here’s a simple piece of advice. Ideally you should use techniques listed in Email Best... (Continue reading)
Email Best Practice #2
Written on 17 Mar, 2009 at 10:59 in Email Best Practices, Emails | viewed times and users have made 2 comments so far
Flag and Reduce Spam Gmail, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, and indeed most other email address domains provide a unique facility for tagging the spam emails you receive – by simply selecting the offending spam email, and clicking the Mark as Spam... (Continue reading)
Email Best Practice #1
Written on 16 Mar, 2009 at 9:37 in Email Best Practices, Emails | viewed times and users have made 1 comment so far
WebCoherence has concluded from its experiments that leading Email companies including Gmail (owned by Google), Yahoo Mail (owned by Yahoo) and Hotmail (owned by Microsoft) do NOT gratuitously circulate user email addresses to potential marketeers. It is often the users themselves... (Continue reading)
