12/28/98 - Spam - 20:
Anti-Spammers and DMA in Agreement
In an unlikely meeting, anti-spammers and the Direct Marketing
Association have reached an agreement that could have substantial
effects on spam.
12/21/98 - IBM Wants to
Replace Sendmail, Make Email More Secure
IBM has released a "replacement" for the sendmail email server supposed
to be more secure and reliable as free software with full source code.
12/07/98 - Spam - 19: Yes,
Virginia, Sapmmers May Be Criminals
Virginia's Commission on Information Technology suggested legislation
that would criminalize spammers and charge them with fines and possibly
prison sentences.
11/30/98 - Mailing Lists:
Create Your Own
The mailing list that you are interested in does not exist? Well, set
it up yourself! With eGroups.com and this step by step guide it's easy
and fun.
11/09/98 - Mailing List
Netiquette
Knowing mailing list netiquette will save you from some embarrassment,
possibly flaming and make a list a better place for all members.
11/02/98 - Using Mailing Lists
Learn which email address to use for what kind of messages, how to
subscribe and unsubscribe and how to send messages to the members of a
mailing list.
10/26/98 - Types of Mailing
Lists
What's a moderated mailing list? What an announcement list? Can I
subscribe to a "closed" mailing list? What is a digest? In this
feature, you'll find answers to these questions and some order in the
chaos.
10/19/98 - What's (in) a
Mailing List?
Learn how the original communities and discussion groups of the Net may
have been born and what they are here for.
10/05/98 - Free Email as
Backup Email
Every now and then even the strongest mail server suffers from an
outage. Free email can provide you with a temporary solution to prevent
total unconnectedness.
09/28/98 - Signature: How
Tall? Text: How Wide?
How long should the sig of your messages be, how wide the text body?
Find out about the conventions and how to make your mail easy to read.
09/21/98 - Medicine and
Email: Chances and Perils
Email is a great communication promise. But can it help heal the
physician-patient linkage? What are the perils of email and medicine?
09/14/98 - Warning: The Use of
Email Can Endanger Your Health
Email helped create "The Starr Report" (do you know its sex to politics
ratio?). How can we avoid something like that happening to us?
09/07/98 - A URL Scheme for
POP Mailboxes
Eventually an Internet standard for accessing POP mailboxes via a
Universal Resource Locator exists.
08/31/98 - How
to Steal a Password
Hacking into somebody's (your?) web-based email account may be easier
than you think.
08/17/98 - Test Your Address
How to find out whether the email you send is going anywhere and what
you are actually sending out to the world.
08/10/98 - Clonnit Pro and
Overflow; Oh, Oh
Clonnit Pro raises severe security concerns; or: What's an overflow
anyways? (There is some information here, though.)
08/03/98 - May Employer
Read Employee's Mail?
How private is `private' mail at the workplace? May your employer read
your messages? Can they do that?
07/27/98 - Free Email
Against Stress
A private email address can save you trouble and stress. Get one.
07/13/98 - Spam - 18: Two More
Anti-Spam Bills in Congress
Even more anti-spam legislation surfaces in Congress. Two new bills
show the spectrum of what is possible: one looks very promising, the
other... not.
07/06/98 - How To Emphasize
Plain Text
When you cannot write it in italics and not it bold, when you cannot
underline it either, there are still ways to stress your point.
06/22/98 - Valid Characters In
An Email Address
What characters are legal to use in an email address? Which should you
use?
06/15/98 - Jim Nitchals Dies
The Net, the anti-spam community have lost somebody who preferred
negotiation over war with Jim Nitchals.
06/08/98 - Father's Day
Greeting Cards
Say "Thank You!" to those who have been fathers to you with the nicest
and smartest greeting cards from all over the Net.
06/01/98 - Spam - 17: The
Great American Pink-Out
The Senate's bill dealing with spam has created some ugly colorful and
some pretty harsh re-action.
05/25/98 - Fight Email Stress
Is your constantly incoming email causing you pain, stress and anxiety?
There's help!
05/18/98 - Spam - 16: Senate
Passes Anti-Spam Bill
The US Senate passed a bill aimed at controlling spam. Can it succeed?
Will it do more harm than good?
05/11/98 - Dialectic Smileys
Smileys make cold, crude email human, humorous. They also make it a
piece of philosophy, if you so want.
05/04/98 - Spam - 15:
Political Spam
Political spam is getting popular but will it also have the
popularizing effect it promises? Doesn't regulation seem necessary?
04/27/98 - Mother's Day
Greeting Cards
The sweetest and cutest greeting cards to say "Thanks for all, you most
of all" on this Mother's Day.
04/20/98 - NET@DDRESS pro
Email Attacks?
Is the free email service Net@dress supporting malicious denial of
service attacks with email against other Netizens?
04/06/98 - Email Makes History
You had better delete all your old mail or chances are you will make
history with all the messages documenting your life.
03/23/98 - Spam 14: Sendmail
8.9 - The Spam Control Release
Sendmail controls Internet message transport (76% of the Unix hosts).
Now it tries to control spam.
03/16/98 - Details and
Optional Commands of the Post Office Protocol (POP)
Find out how the NOOP and UIDL commands work, and what APOP
authentication brings.
03/09/98 - POP: The Essentials
Now that we know what the Post Office Protocol is good for we have a
look at how this is implemented.
03/02/98 - POP: The Purpose
of the Post Office Protocol
You probably use it several times ever day; without it, you wouldn't
receive one single piece of email: the Post Office Protocol.
02/09/98 - HTML Threading
Microsoft, Lotus and Qualcomm want to solve the old threading problem
with HTML and XML and other
overkill.
01/19/98 - Email and Viruses?
Can there be a virus in your mail? is the question. We have some simple
answers.
01/12/98 - Email Message,
Email Address and Clickability
How to properly include your email address into your email message and
make it clickable, too!
01/05/98 - Spam 12: Anti-spam
= Anti-small-business?
A group of spammers claims AOL is against small businesses and
threatened to post AOL users' email addresses on their Web site - is
anti-spam anti-small-business?
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