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10:00AM Angus Kidman | It was only last Thursday that we were emphasising the fact that mistakes happen in online commerce, and Virgin Blue came up with a doozy on Friday, emailing everyone on its customer database and mistakenly telling them they’d been upgraded to Velocity Gold. More »
Virgin Blue Snafu Means No Free Gold Membership For You
10:00AM Angus Kidman | It was only last Thursday that we were emphasising the fact that mistakes happen in online commerce, and Virgin Blue came up with a doozy on Friday, emailing everyone on its customer database and mistakenly telling them they’d been upgraded to Velocity Gold. More » 
Work
Quickly Scan Your Gmail Spam For Missed Messages
12:00AM Kevin Purdy | Gmail’s spam filter is good, but not perfect. If you’ve got a sneaking suspicion there might be a false positive, shoulda-seen-it email trapped in your Spam bin, the Digital Inspiration blog suggests a quick search to find it. More »
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What’s The “Best” Spam Email You’ve Received?
6:30AM Azadeh Ensha | Whether it’s the surreal stylings of Nigerian scammers or confusing subject lines of pill pitches, spam email can be oddly amusing. We’d like to hear which missives from your spam folder have made you crack a smile. More »
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TxtNinja Stashes Your Text Inside Images
11:30PM Jason Fitzpatrick | Have something you want other people to read but not spam bots and search-engine crawlers? TxtNinja will turn your plain text into an image to keep the bots at bay. More »
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Use BCC By Cut Down On Reply Spam
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | PC World runs down three lessons they’ve learned about containing the email beast, and at least one of them is worth contemplating for your next multi-recipient email. In short, BCC isn’t just a privacy tool, but a reply-all killer. More »
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Gmail Offers To Automatically Unsubscribe You From Mailing Lists
12:00AM Adam Pash | Ever get an email from a legit mailing list but went ahead and marked it as spam anyway because you just don’t want it? Gmail has smartened up to this common behaviour, offering to automatically unsubscribe you from certain messages. More »
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11:47AM Angus Kidman | The exemptions for survey forms and charities might ruin your day when you’re working at home, but new data suggests that the Do Not Call register has been a success in cutting back on unwanted telephone spam. More »
Do Not Call Violation Complaints Declining
11:47AM Angus Kidman | The exemptions for survey forms and charities might ruin your day when you’re working at home, but new data suggests that the Do Not Call register has been a success in cutting back on unwanted telephone spam. More »
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2:30PM Angus Kidman | It’s an increasingly common Twitter experience — you mention a company in passing and suddenly find that you’re being followed by its Twitter marketing robot. Nest Unclutterer helps keep your follower list free of those kinds of distractions. More »
Nest Unclutterer Dumps Unwanted Twitter Followers
2:30PM Angus Kidman | It’s an increasingly common Twitter experience — you mention a company in passing and suddenly find that you’re being followed by its Twitter marketing robot. Nest Unclutterer helps keep your follower list free of those kinds of distractions. More »
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Spam Returns To Previous Levels: 94% Of All Email Sent
3:30AM Adam Pash | Toward the end of last year, a hosting provider involved in sending 75% of spam emails was shut down—dropping spam levels by a whopping two-thirds. Unfortunately, according to the New York Times, spam has made a full recovery, back to 94% of all sent email. Also, like any good virus, spam has evolved to more advanced and resilient technologies as a result—so it looks like bad news all around. Photo by janetgalore. [NYT]
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