Eudora is being dropped by the owners The well known email program, Eudora is being converted into an open source program by the current owners, Qualcomm. The last commercial versions of Eudora (v 7.1 for Windows and v 6.2.4 for Mac) will be on sale at a reduced price until the first half of 2007 […]
Spam has several meanings. The producer of the canned pork product Spam has lost a bid to stop companies using the word ‘Spam’ as a nickname for unwanted email. The name ‘Spam’ originally meant ‘Spiced Ham’ back in 1937 when Hormel Foods Corp. started the product. In the 70’s Spam became part of pop culture […]
Survey shows those stock tip emails actually work. One of the more common uses of spam is to promote a particular stock in an effort to boost the price via these false disclosures. This trick was especially popular during the Internet stock boom when people were eager to get in on the next big thing. […]
About those messages from MySpace users. One of the more recent phishing campaigns impersonates the Myspace web site. If you see messages with a subject like: “New message from [name] on MySpace … “ it is trying to trick you into clicking on the link. The messages have nothing to do with Myspace or any […]
About those strange codes you get when a message is returned. We’ve all received those email ‘bounce’ messages with curious codes to indicate the problem. Sadly the text of these messages isn’t always very helpful. If you’re lucky there will be some explanatory text but otherwise you need to delve into the wonders of RFC2821 […]
