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 Experiments – Setting up forwarding
Written on 23 Mar, 2009 at 1:59 in Our Experiments | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
For the benefit of experimenters, we have listed down the steps they need to follow to setup forwarding on their Google Mail and Hotmail accounts. Steps to setup forwarding on Google mail: G1. Login to your newly created Google mail... (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 experiments – Starting Simply
Written on 17 Mar, 2009 at 11:28 in Our Experiments | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
Many of your experiments will be using e-mails for feedback, data collection and communication. Thus it is essential that you create a brand new group of e-mails for each new experiment, so that the data from any one experiment doesn’t... (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)
Learning to love Spam
Written on 16 Mar, 2009 at 18:43 in Featured Stories, Our Experiments | viewed times and users have made 0 comments so far
I used to be very annoyed whenever spam mail managed to penetrate my mail filters. But no more! In a flash of enlightenment I found myself in awe of the sheer ingenuity (as well as the brass nerve) of the... (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)
