Hard to believe that someone can become more interested in training a spam program how to filter our e-mail than simply hitting the Delete key. I agree with the author’s main advice: find a program that builds a white list of e-mail addresses, so that wanted messages arenever thrown away.
Speaking of spam, if…
A number of technology companies are starting to push the idea of “presence,” which is described as the notion that computing systems willknow where their users are and help others make smarter choices about how to get in touch. Yikes — no privacy issues there, nosiree.
It has happened to all of us — we dash off an e-mail in haste or in anger, pressing the Send button before we really had time to think about the consequences of our actions. How many e-mails have you received (or sent) that were mailed prematurely?
Well, you don’t have to worry about that…
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A few weeks ago I mentioned a “do not spam” registry not backed by the federal government. It now appears that more private sites are popping up, including thedonotspamregistry.com. The FTC strongly advises consumers not to submit any information to any site claiming to be a “National Do Not E-Mail Registry.”
Have you downloaded the new search utility Grokker? If you have, take advantage of the Google plug-in, which allows you to query and retrieve information from Google and visualize the results in a Grokker map. I couldn’t find it on the Grokker plugins page (head to theGrokker home page and click on…
In the battle against spam, every time the anti-spam industry comes up with a new way to beat junk mail, the spammers figure out another way to get past spam filters. Spam War demonstrates some of the new ways spam is finding its way to your inbox.
The new Yahoo! offers a great new feature — the search results contain links to RSS feeds. Here’s an example for the Instapundit weblog and the New York Times. Way cool.
Bernard Hibbitts and the folks over at Jurist’s Paper Chase want to bring their daily legal news headlines to legal, educational, and governmental websites and intranets. Best of all, it’s free! To request the code, head over to this page.
Copernic, the company that makes the great Copernic Agent meta-search product, has introduced the Copernic Tracker, a utility that automatically monitors websites for you and notifies you of any changes or new additions.
I love products like this — I have been using Website Watcher for some time now, and I love it.…
