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Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 26th, 2003
Noted with interest/approval: Slashdot | AOL Sued For Over-Zealous Blocking “America Online has been sued by CI Host, a Texas-based hosting company for defamation, interference with contractual rights and unfair competition. CI Host has been awarded a temporary restraining order, though AOL has apparently not complied. This may be the first such in a series of suits [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 5th, 2003
The SpamBayes Outlook Addin continues to evolve rapidly. (This is my preferred Outlook-compatible anti-spam product.) New in this version: Bugs for non-English users fixed. Most installation/registration errors finally fixed. Some “message read/unread flag” bugs fixed. We change the way we save the Spam score, which has solved at least some such bugs. There [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 29th, 2003
Free World Dialup is an interesting VOIP service. It’s not PC-to-Phone (ala Vonage), but a very easy way to interconnect to other VOIP users in a semi-standardized way. The site is still a bit long on jargon, but definitely worth keeping an eye on. IConnectHere is a very interesting Vonage-like VOIP>Regular Phone service. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 21st, 2003
I note with pleasure that the SpamBayes Outlook Addin Version 0.4 has been released. This is my favorite open-source Outlook-compatible spam-filtering solution.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 1st, 2003
Wired News: Bloggers Gain Libel Protection covers a recent Supreme Court case that delivered some good news for folks reposting information to email lists or blogs: Web loggers, website operators and e-mail list editors can’t be held responsible for libel for information they republish.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 1st, 2003
The 0.3 release of the SpamBayes Outlook Addin is out. This is currently my Outlook-compatible spam filtering solution of choice. Free, open-source, and very very effective.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19th, 2003
Jon Udell wrote a nice review of SpamBayes Outlook Addin, a powerful, open-source spam-fighting tool that integrates directly with Outlook. SpamBayes has zoomed straight to the top of my list of Outlook-compatible spam-blockers, besting previous contender Spammunition.
Posted in Uncategorized on May 13th, 2003
Adam Engst, publisher of Tidbits (an excellent weekly email list covering all things Mac), recently published the following editorial addressing so-called “challenge-response” anti-spam systems, such as the one about to be deployed by Earthlink.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 25th, 2003
The crack email newsletter and online relationship management researchers at the Stanford Alumni Association have an interesting bit of research available: “Salutiations and Response Rates to Online Surveys.” A previous work, entitled “@Stanford and Institutional Advancement” is an outstanding look at the many impacts of email newsletters. Both studies can be found on the homepage of Jerold, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 23rd, 2003
Mitch Kapor’s “Chandler” email project has just released its first chunk of code. While they’re still a long way from a usable release, the vision for Chandler is very compelling. This is a project worth paying attention to.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 23rd, 2003
Mitch Kapor’s “Chandler” email project has just released its first chunk of cod e. While they’re still a long way from a usable release, the vision for Chandler is very compelling. This is a project worth paying attention to.
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2003
Jakob Nielsen’s most recent “Alertbox” article, Low-End Media for User Empowerment, is particularly good. Key concept is that “low-end media” — pictures and text — are much more usable than “high-end media” — animations, video, sounds, 3-D models, etc. One of the interesting exceptions he mentions is email newsletters, saying that “In usability testing a broad range [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2003
There’s (finally!) been a surge of interest in email newsletters among our clients. I think this is due to a convergence of several factors, among them: Several years worth of repeating the message “effective online strategies are based on email.” The widely-noted success of email-based antiwar organizing Our recent launch of new, powerful, easy-to-use Sympa email list [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 19th, 2003
A new study, entitled ‘Why all this spam?” suggests that the main reason many email addresses get spammed is because they’re posted on public Web sites. The suggestion: disguise your email address on your public Web site — all you have to do is write “jon at onenw.org” instead of “jon@onenw.org.”
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2003
Outlook/Exchange site Slipstick.com has some good coverage of Outlook 11, including screenshots.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2003
The computing folks at CMU have a nice little tutorial on how to use Outlook 2002 to work with IMAP accounts in offline mode.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 1st, 2003
Rick Christ at NPAdvisors.com recently published some research showing that folks who receive email newsletters are more likely to give in response to traditional direct-mail asks. Rick’s experiment is similar to a more comprehsensive study conducted in 2001 by the Stanford University development department showing that, overall, folks who received Stanford’s email newsletter [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2003
There are some interesting thoughts about the problems with “rich-formatted’ HTML email in this article by Jaz-Michael King, entitled HTML Email Isn’t Rich on evolt.
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 8th, 2003
Carl Coryell-Martin just did a great little lunchtime presentation on “How to Empty Your Email Inbox” based on the book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. It’s a little long to summzarize here, but this is an incredibly powerful set of processes for, well, getting things done. It has huge implications for how one organizes [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 6th, 2003
Another short article on the forthcoming Exchange Server 2003. Interesting tidbit: “Microsoft has enhanced the Mail Application Programming Interface (MAPI), so that remote workers or telecommuters no longer need a virtual private network (VPN) connection to check e-mail on an Exchange server.” This would be huge for us. This article has a few more [...]
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