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12/11/00 - How HTML Email Invades Your Privacy
Find out what senders of HTML email may know about you, and how you can prevent such privacy infringement.

11/27/00 - Report Spam with SpamCop
SpamCop makes it easy and convenient to report unsolicited email correctly and effficiently.

11/20/00 - Redirect Email Messages
Use "Redirect" instead of "Forward" to avoid forwarding troubles.

11/13/00 - The mbox Format
Do you want to know how your email client most probably stores mail on your computer -- and why it sometimes puts ">From" in the middle of one of these emails?

11/06/00 - The Fabulous Love-Email Generator
No idea how to confess your love via email? The Fabulous Love-Email Generator can help. Give it a try.

10/30/00 - Why You Should Convey Your Love via Email
More love. More love for the people, more love for the world, more love for email.

10/23/00 - Why Not to Convey Your Love via Email
Confessing your love via email may seem easy and tempting, but you should not do it. Here's why.

10/09/00 - Sending X-Headers with Eudora on Windows
With X-Headers, you can add some personality to your emails in a place where not everybody may expect it -- but the more will they be (hopefully pleasantly) surprised.

10/02/00 - Mailshell: Easy Newsletter Management and Anti-Spam Measures
Have you ever wished it was easy to subscribe (multiple) email newsletters and get off these lists again? Have you ever wished such subscriptions would be save from spammers? Mailshell can provide this.

09/18/00 - Sydney 2000: Email the Athletes
Send your favorite athlete or team an email. You might even get an answer.

09/04/00 - Delete Unwanted Mail Before Downloading It (Eudora 4)
You probably get lots of mail that you delete when you have just seen the Subject. Why not delete these messages directly on the server before downloading them completely?

08/28/00 - Send Email That Self-destructs
With Disappearing Email you can gain control over what happens to your messages after you send them: they will only be legible for a limited period of time.

08/21/00 - Understand SMTP Error Messages
When sending a message fails, email clients only too often have no clue what the error message returned by the server means and present it to the user. Make sure you know what to make of these numbers.

08/07/00 - Protect Your System Against Worms
Worms use a scripting language to send themselves or do damage to your system. Find out how to control the execution of such scripts. 

07/31/00 - Eudora 5 Beta
Take a look at the new features in Eudora 5.

07/24/00 - House Passes Anti-Spam Bill
The House of Representatives has passed a bill that could tame spam.

07/17/00 - Outlook Express 5 (Windows) Email Account Properties Explained
Find out what all the settings in the Outlook Express 5 for Windows email account properties dialog mean.

07/10/00 - Use Multiple Personalities in Eudora Pro 4 (Windows)
In Eudora Pro 4, you can set up as many personalities as you have email accounts, or even more. They all have specific settings, signatures, and more.

07/03/00 - Send a Form via Email
Forms are very useful for standardized data, which puts them on nearly ever Web site. Find out how you can send forms via email, too.

06/26/00 - Email Campaign Hopes to Relief Poor Country Debt
The aim of Jubilee 2000 is to relief the debt of poor countries. Find out how they want to achieve this goal with a global email campaign.

06/12/00 - Manage Mailing Lists with Outlook Express 5 for Macintosh
Do you have trouble remembering the unsubscription information for all your mailing lists? Does your reply sometimes go only to the sender, not the whole list? Outlook Express 5 for Macintosh can take care of these issues for you.

06/05/00 - Send an Attachment with Outlook Express 5 for Windows
You can send almost everything as an attachment (from images to reports to mp3s). Find out how to form attachments with OE 5 for Windows.

05/29/00 - Add Signatures to Your Message in Outlook Express 5 for Macintosh
Outlook Express for Macintosh can append a signature to every email message you write automatically. Find out how to set this up.

05/22/00 - What IMAP Can Do for You
The Internet Message Access Protocol allows access to a mailbox from multiple computers and email clients.

05/15/00 - Avoid Web-Based Email Password Theft
Web-based email accounts are attractive targets for password thieves. Find out how to protect your email from prying eyes.

05/08/00 - How Worms Spread via Email (and How to Avoid That)
Worms like the infamous 'ILOVEYOU' use certain strategies to spread themselves via email. We have a look at both these strategies and efficient counter-measures.

05/01/00 - Mother's Day Greeting Card Collection 2000
Send your mother a heartfelt thank you with the best email greeting cards from all over the Net.

04/24/00 - Chaining Remailers with PGP-Encryption
Chaining a number of PGP-enabled remailers is the probably most secure way of sending anonymous email.

04/03/00 - Send Email Anonymously (4)
Combining Cypherpunk remailers with PGP encryption further increases the security and anonymity of our emails.

03/27/00 - Send Email Anonymously (3)
We can obfuscate the path an email takes even further by chaining remailers.

03/20/00 - Send Email Anonymously (2)
Use a Cypherpunk remailer to send your emails anonymously with a high degree of anonymity and security.

03/13/00 - Send Email Anonymously (1)
Find out how to send emails without telling your true name easily. These methods offer limited anonymity.

02/28/00 - Make ICQ Alert You of Incoming Email Messages
Have ICQ, always running anyway, check your email for you and be alerted when new mail arrives.

02/21/00 - Add an Animation to Your Signature in Eudora Pro
Show off your self with an animation in your signature appended to all your messages sent with Eudora Pro.

02/07/00 - Use Eudora Pro 4.3 More Efficiently with Keyboard Shortcuts
Accelerate the way you handle the daily dose of mail with these basic keyboard shortcuts.

01/24/00 - How WinZip 8 Makes Sending Files Easier
WinZip 8 lets you zip and email files with just two clicks. Find out how.

01/17/00 - Forward an Email Message
Forwarding in an easy and fast way is one of email's best features. Find out how to do it right, how to format a forward, how to forward forwards,...

01/10/00 - Reply to an Email Message
Even replying to an email message can be done better -- or worse. Learn how to do it better...

01/03/00 - How to Subscribe & Unsubscribe About.com Newsletters via Email
You can join and leave About.com newsletters on the Web, but you can also use email to do that. There is even a command to leave all lists at once.

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