Gmail has a good spam filter, you can use it for your own email accounts. In Email Essentials we often talk about spam filters that go too far, stopping you from seeing messages that you want to see. Many spam filters are either hidden from view or not configurable leaving customers unable to get messages […]
Spam filters can only give a guess about whether a message is spam or not … Last week we talked about messages disappearing before you receive them and the problem of over-zealous spam filters. In this issue we’ll look inside spam filters to see why they are not perfect. You and I can glance at […]
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 […]
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has a neat explanation of how to ‘accidently’ delete email in Outlook. For a bit of fun, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart recently explained how you can ‘accidently’ delete emails in Outlook. We’re not getting into the political elements of this — we thought it was funny and […]