I Got U.S. Secrets by Email London Daily-Mirror A website promoting a small town is to shut after sparking a security scare because it shares the same name as a US air base. Gary Sinnott's site on Mildenhall, Suffolk, began receiving emails about sensitive military issues, including presidential flight paths, passwords and battlefield strategy. They were meant for nearby Mildenhall US base where 2,500 airmen and their families live.
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iPhone to Support Corporate Email Soon MacWorld American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu made the prediction in his latest note to clients Thursday. “Even before the iPhone was launched, our concern was its mediocre corporate email support even though it had strong consumer email capability (Yahoo Mail, Gmail, .Mac, AOL mail). Our concern stemmed partially from Exchange’s lukewarm support of Macs (understandably so as Microsoft needs to defend its Windows franchise),” the analyst notes.
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March 03, 2008
Don Knuth, renowned computer scientist, author, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and the "father" of algorithms analysis, did a very brave thing on Jan. 1, 1990.
About 100 times a week I, too, have felt a similar urge to give up email. First of all, there's the spam problem. Unscrupulous people, by means of the ominous sounding Email Harvesting Robots, look for the @ symbol to foul up your life.
There is no doubt that email is addictive; more Americans are using portable devices to check their email all day and all night. Fifty-three percent of surveyed email users claim they check their mail in the bathroom. 83% of email users admit to checking their mail once a day while vacationing.
There is also no doubt that email eliminates social contact. In order to keep my people skills honed, I have forced myself to walk, sometimes as far as 15 feet, to interact with a person, instead of emailing them. So I can read their body language, see their expression and sense what they really mean. Which sometimes isn't a good thing.
I have also dialed, in lieu of sending an email, and found that to be okay, except when you can't get that person off the phone. And this enormous long-distance bill comes as a result.
It does mean a lot when I get an actual letter from someone, who has taken the time to actually write on real paper. Of course, since email has ruined our penmanship, I can't read it anyway. Whereas, if I am solicited by email, I will use my domain and URL blocking services to eliminate future contact. None of which work.
Nevertheless, I try, at least, to enforce a few email rules.
I do try to limit checking email. Although I've found that if you don't check it one day, it sorts of mounts up and you have to deal with it anyway.
I never read an email, with URGENT in the subject line.
If I get an email with a baby picture attached, I wait at least three days before saying the obligatory "adorable."
I don't answer emails when I am on the CC line, since I figure if they want my full attention, I'll be on the top line.
I immediately delete any email sent to more than 30 people. If someone sends me a very long email, I'll try to discourage future practice with a short response. But then I have to weigh the response, with getting a career phone call, from the ominously long-winded writer.
Clearly, learning to live with email is a complicated business. Feel free to, well, email me at the Eye, with your take.
Email Overloaded emailoverloaded Itzy Sabo analyzes the causes of email overload, discusses strategies to cope with the constant bombardment, and provides practical tips for getting the most out of our email programs.
What Was She Thinking? Death By Email Louise Day – who fronts a rock band under her stage name Punxie – refused to pull out of the race for Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Australia after sending an email joke that talks about being gang raped by her opponent, Greg Rowell. She made several other statements that appeared widely in the Aussie press,
Give the Cat a Name email experience council We are all searching for Tiffany’s, where “nothing very bad can happen.” Holly Golightly finds calm in taking her morning coffee window shopping; we search for solace sipping Starbucks over our inboxes, browsing emails, the windows into websites.
How many times a day do you check your email?
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Reply as quickly as possible, short sentences, keep in-box clean...
Email only really needs to be checked once per day; less often on vacation of course (unless vacation is away from a family member).
That's what Heiress thinks...;)
I agree, heiresses need not be a slave to email. If a lawyer has a trust fund matter, they can use the phone.
But, alas, for the rest of us...