Email

I haven’t had a chance to check out Mark Hurst’s newish book, Bit Literacy, but I was just listening to a talk he did for Ted a couple years ago on how to manage your incoming email, and I’m going to dive in and try it. Here’s the essential steps: The overarching goal is to…

Sometimes pushing, via email, still wins over pulling via websites. There’s a handful of sites I want to monitor but lack the time or attention to surf, even as an RSS feed. Lately I’ve been using iMorph’s Infominder service. They basically check a site for changes and send you an update. Nice touches are thrown…

Dan Benjamin’s Win the SPAM Arms Race offers a clever way to create a clickable mailto: link on your web pages while greatly reducing the ability of spam harvesters to find it. Some people are so nice. I’m combining that with some email filters, started with Heather’s list plus a few additions that are working…

‘I never said I want to be alone‘, on spam selling a stock. I still don’t understand why they think we’ll be in a buying mood after they trick us into looking at their unsolicited marketing message.

So I’m planning on moving away from Yahoo mail. It’s been wonderful to go many years without having to change my personal email address, but: the reliability has been spotty lately they started charging, which is fair, but it makes me wonder what other services are out there the email hack, ugh it’s time to…

Spotted! Well, not exactly the BlogSpam I referred to. But crazy random posts on the topic of air-conditioning and mold appeared on Molly’s blog here and here. Is it someone’s idea of a joke? Do you wish you thought of it first?

We have email spam and IM spam. Today I received a spam text message on my mobile phone (either Sprint sold my number or the spammers haven’t even bothered to harvest numbers, simply sending them out in numerical order because it’s so inexpensive). Oh joy. Next I predict – and I probably shouldn’t say this…

So I recently upgraded to MacOS X and for the most part I’m loving it. But I haven’t found an email client that sings. So far I hear the MacOS X Mail program is kinda lameI’ve used Eudora in the past, and I’m willing to again. The interface is embarrasingly bad at times, but I’ve…