Email

What’s the deal with the plague of infomercial-marketed products invading our inboxes? Every day, I wake up to a new pile of unsolicited commercial email for these marvels of modern marketing. As seen on TV, and quickly ignored. As seen in the inbox: immediately filtered and deleted.
I’d reckon that much of this stuff is sent [...]

I’m kicking myself. The hard drive in my MacBook went south this week. I didn’t lose a huge amount of data due to the crashed notebook drive … just one thing … a portion of my old email. Nearly everything else was backed up in one place or another. Losing six months of email to [...]

Call Joe Dirt! Know someone with a killer mullet? Do they love bull riding, by chance? Just when you thought you’ve seen every email promotion known to mankind, someone sets a new benchmark. The Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, New Jersey and the Professional Bull Riders Tour are running a contest to give away a [...]

The question begs to be asked. Did spammers fuel the sub-prime mortgage crisis? This is no common conspiracy theory, my friends. It’s common sense. Indulge me if you will and take a gander at the raft of unsolicited mortgage offers that fill your inbox. A huge percentage of these loan offers tout remarkably low teaser [...]

I just got back from a five day weekend at the beach with no Internet access whatsoever. No PC. No Mac. No hotel wi-fi. No Internet-connected cell phone. No Internet cafe. Nothing. Nada. Zilch. So what’s the worst thing about coming back from a long relaxing weekend without Internet access?

Whether your group is strung throughout the state or strewn across the land, online calendars get everyone on the same page. If there’s an app that’s perfect for the Web, this is it. Lest the niche go unstomped for too long, rumor has it that Google is about to enter the fray, with an online [...]

There’s no more cost-effective way than email marketing
to reach a targeted group of people in a very short time. Whether
you’re running the marketing or public relations efforts for a soccer
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A good spam filter can be a good thing. A bad spam filter can be a very very bad thing. Overzealous spam filters kill legitimate email as they seek to deep six the bad stuff. My business email host recently put a pathetic two-stage spam filtering system in place. I’m miffed, to say the [...]

E-mail monitoring is a touchy subject among employees and employers alike. Many employees feel that e-mail is a personal matter and that their employers have no right to take measures to monitor e-mail. On the other side of the fence, however, a great many employers believe that it is fully within their right to use [...]

Aside from the infamous Monty Python skit, have you ever met anyone that actually likes spam? Not me. I’ve looked forward to ditching my spammed-out e-mail account for ages. Switching from my old e-mail address (which I’ve had since the dotcom boom) to a new address has allowed me to significantly cut down on the [...]