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Snow White: Who's Been Sleeping In My Inbox?
News The worm is not destructive, although it propagates itself via email to everyone in the user's inbox. Snow White may be something of a fairytale to most, however, in cyberspace it's a virus which has enormous staying power.
[June 6, 2001, 10:37]
Inbox Menace - Bugbear
News Further temptation comes from the fact that the message will appear to come from a known source because the worm spreads using addresses found on user systems in the current inbox or taken from a number of database files that commonly contain...
[October 10, 2002, 13:01]
Introduction To Bayesian Filtering: Using Bayes' Formula To Keep Spam Out Of Your Inbox
White Papers This whitepaper gives a basic explanation of what Bayes' Formula is, and how it can be used to keep spam out of the Inbox. This document provides a general overview of how Bayesian Filtering can be used to eliminate spam.
[April 24, 2004, 0:00]
A Walk Along The Inbox
Blog Just for fun, I did a quick analysis of the contents of my work inbox for the past 24 hours. Most of my personal email goes on in my personal inbox, unsurprisingly, so I'm not quite as sad and friendless as that figure may indicate, and it's nice...
[June 12, 2007, 16:44]
Christmas Brings Inbox Overload
News As well as being inundated with the perennial spam emails about scams and financial services, computer users are also facing the added inbox burden brought about by Christmas. Joe Licari, director of product management at Sybari, said: "During the...
[December 13, 2002, 11:04]
‘Spring Clean’ Your Inbox
Blog An overloaded Inbox is something we can all relate to. But do you have an effective way to process and organise your e-mail so that you can get to an empty Inbox on a routine basis? If you have lots of e-mail in your Inbox - I know people with as...
[April 9, 2008, 9:35]
Liberating The Inbox: How To Make Email Safe And Productive Again
White Papers This paper focuses on the threat posed by unwanted emails that make it through to the inbox, explains the impact these threats have on organizations, and demonstrates what needs to be done in response to make email safe and productive.
[April 8, 2008, 0:00]
Installing Test Builds Of Inbox Drivers On Windows Vista
White Papers Ordinarily, a Microsoft-signed driver outranks a driver that is signed by a third party, which makes it difficult for driver developers to install private builds of an inbox driver. Microsoft Windows Vista provides a mechanism that can be used to...
[November 21, 2006, 23:00]
Do Senders Have A Right To Your Inbox?
Talkback Won't the tracking get a hit immediately if the recipient has autopreview on? Therefore, the data collected will be meaningless - to avoid the social glitch, simply say, "Oh I wasn't at my computer today, it will have been autoprevied though.
[June 7, 2004, 14:01]
Do Senders Have A Right To Your Inbox?
Talkback John has a good point, my IM is left logged in all the time, and even when the screen saver comes on, it doesn't always set my status to away. I use mail programs which don't use HTML for the most part.
[June 7, 2004, 14:54]
Do Senders Have A Right To Your Inbox?
Talkback The service only provides the location of the dial up service, which may be on the other side of the country. Proof of delivery/reading has some use in business, but not in personal email. Stop this privacy invasion by using an email client which...
[June 13, 2004, 19:27]
‘Spring Clean’ Your Inbox
Blog Comment People in bussiness who have 5000 emails, and i can tell you lots of people do, seem to think that it is neccessary and that on our Mail Servers we have infinate amount of Disk space to store everyone in the companies 5000 emails.
[April 8, 2008, 10:47]
Do Senders Have A Right To Your Inbox?
Talkback I use msgtag and love it. I want to know if my mail has been opened.msgtag only does what outlook does.
[June 30, 2004, 20:05]
Do Senders Have A Right To Your Inbox?
Talkback Like most things, yes and no. I am an admin Evil-Genius with an engineering consultancy; I do use a tracker at work and advise everyone else to do so to. Business is Business. But we all know it exists, even if we do not use it.
[June 9, 2004, 18:57]
‘Spring Clean’ Your Inbox
Blog Comment You're right Chris, it's very hard to manage employees' e-mails in terms of what they need and what they don't. Again, I think a large part of it comes down to educating the workforce to implement the tips I gave above.
[April 8, 2008, 16:58]
Do Senders Have A Right To Your Inbox?
Talkback Of course this is an invasion. Hence the fact I now receive a ' do you want to send a read receipt' rather than it happening arbitrarily. I for one will be turning off the display images toggle ( or changing to a purely text based email client...
[June 9, 2004, 17:26]
Do Senders Have A Right To Your Inbox?
Talkback I believe that the use of e-mail tracking is legitimate on a B2B level but not for the potential marketing purposes mentioned in the article. In my SME we have been subject to the whole gamut of avoidance tactics, from "never received your message...
[June 9, 2004, 13:41]
Do Senders Have A Right To Your Inbox?
Talkback You can set up most personal firewalls (including the free ones) to only allow your email client access to your mail server(s) or certain ports. This should block any web beacons, although will also mean many of your HTML emails will display with...
[June 9, 2004, 11:22]
Do Senders Have A Right To Your Inbox?
Talkback Although I don't like the thought of this at all, spammers may focus their emails to those who read it and refrain from sending to those who don't. Farfetched, I know.maybe.just maybe.
[June 8, 2004, 15:22]
Branded Email May Be In Your Inbox Soon
News Corporate branding may be the next wave of the email phenomenon, but the big question is will recipients mind incoming messages with lots of bells and whistles attached? Australian company Advatel is touting its multimedia email enhancing...
[August 13, 2001, 9:56]
