thesun.co.uk— And now, 35 years on, we'd be completely lost without the joys of emailing - just imagine actually having to work all day!
Nov 25, 2006View in Crawl 4
A 35 year old technology... It's showing its age too as it's now horribly infected with that old age disease called "spam". Time to take email out in a back field, put a bullet in it, and put it and us out of our 'spammy' misery.
Sadly email is dying off too. I remember reading about many studies a little while back saying (Which is true now that i think about it) that emails are starting to take longer then users want. They want items to be there almost instantaneously... So most move on to faster items (IE: Instant Messaging)-Zook
As someone who gets around 2,000-4,000 spams a day (10 year old domain name) I've been able to control it with a success rate of ..oh say 99% (I'd get around 3 spams a day that falls through the crack now)My method:1. Have spam assassin turned on for your domain name.2. Use PopTray (free email notifier) and use the powerful rules function that's built in.That's it. For those who are not familiar with PopTray, do so now and learn how to use the filter rules....You'd be surprise how many spam emails contain similar words or phrases. <a class="user" href="http://www.poptray.org">http://www.poptray.org</a>On another note, my older brother uses Outlook and cloudmark plugin (google it) which eliminates a good portion of his spam emails automatically. I was rather impressed.
Well happy birthday to one of the greatest things ever invented. Hell of a lot faster than paper mail and a lot cheaper for me. I just wish it wasn't all spam and i had to search through my 100 e-mails a day to get the 2 important ones that i actually need.
well... happy birthday e-mail and thanks for making the necessary awkward communications in our lives easier to accomplish. You have truely dampered our skills in communicating with people that we don't know well and don't necessarily want to talk to (i.e. bosses, parents-in-law, long lost friends, etc.)
ivanbNov 26, 2006
Caption the picture!
renegademindNov 26, 2006
A 35 year old technology... It's showing its age too as it's now horribly infected with that old age disease called "spam". Time to take email out in a back field, put a bullet in it, and put it and us out of our 'spammy' misery.
z00kNov 26, 2006
Sadly email is dying off too. I remember reading about many studies a little while back saying (Which is true now that i think about it) that emails are starting to take longer then users want. They want items to be there almost instantaneously... So most move on to faster items (IE: Instant Messaging)-Zook
atomic1fireNov 26, 2006
his first act of dutyspamhis second foward good luck emailsthird account activations
Closed AccountNov 26, 2006
Really? He looks a lot older than 35...<a class="user" href="http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1456/3812871xz0.jpg">http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1456/3812871xz0.jpg</a>
xentarNov 26, 2006
As someone who gets around 2,000-4,000 spams a day (10 year old domain name) I've been able to control it with a success rate of ..oh say 99% (I'd get around 3 spams a day that falls through the crack now)My method:1. Have spam assassin turned on for your domain name.2. Use PopTray (free email notifier) and use the powerful rules function that's built in.That's it. For those who are not familiar with PopTray, do so now and learn how to use the filter rules....You'd be surprise how many spam emails contain similar words or phrases. <a class="user" href="http://www.poptray.org">http://www.poptray.org</a>On another note, my older brother uses Outlook and cloudmark plugin (google it) which eliminates a good portion of his spam emails automatically. I was rather impressed.
xidicaNov 26, 2006
LOL. The picture is indeed hilarious. "Oh wow look at this amazing free offer! Let's click on it!"Whoops...
leftfootNov 27, 2006
I'm sorry I don't know the actual date when Viagra was introduced.I'm kinda sorry that you actually do.
flcnstuNov 28, 2006
Well happy birthday to one of the greatest things ever invented. Hell of a lot faster than paper mail and a lot cheaper for me. I just wish it wasn't all spam and i had to search through my 100 e-mails a day to get the 2 important ones that i actually need.
johnny84Nov 28, 2006
well... happy birthday e-mail and thanks for making the necessary awkward communications in our lives easier to accomplish. You have truely dampered our skills in communicating with people that we don't know well and don't necessarily want to talk to (i.e. bosses, parents-in-law, long lost friends, etc.)