The possible ‘road-blocks’ between you and an email message. There’s a very real possibility that a message you send won’t reach the intended destination. Email delivery isn’t guaranteed and these days there are plenty of blocks between sender and recipient. Every week we hear from readers who are either sending or trying to receive messages […]
The British Library is collecting emails this month. The British Library, in conjunction with Microsoft’s Windows Live is collecting a snapshot of email from UK residents all through May 2007. Email Britain is collecting messages from people to be preserved for future generations to get a glimpse of daily, virtual, life in the early 21st […]
An all-too-common story from New Zealand where someone’s name causes their email to be refused. A somewhat funny email story from New Zealand this weekend shows how email filters have to be configured very carefully. Gay Hamilton sent an innocent customer enquiry to NZ Telecom (the major telco) and was surprised to see the message […]
Do you know all the email addresses you have available? Remember when you got your first email address? What an exciting time, giving it out to friends and hoping for incoming emails. Even your first spam might have been interesting. These days the problem for many people isn’t one email address but the many they’ve […]
The ‘Privacy’ option at Google Checkout does more than you might expect or want. At Google Checkout (Google’s online payment option) you’ll see an option like this: ‘Keep my email address confidential. Google will forward all email from to ‘. This option creates an email alias (eg ‘some_long_string_of_letters_and_numbers@checkout.google.com’ ) which is re-directed to your normal […]
