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- spartan018, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33i do work all day, trying to clear the spam out of my inbox. but happy b-day email. thanks for telling me 100 different ways to make my PEN15 b1gger without FDA approval.
- mikeyj10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Now e-mail can be president.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Really? He looks a lot older than 35...
http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/1456/3812871xz0.jpg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9You don't get spam in your real mailbox?
Lucky. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+735 years and inches later, I Love email!
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5it could get replaced by Instant messeging since you can on some services recieve offline messages
- shortkid422, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm 18, and I can't imagine a world without email, it's kind of scary how dependent we have become on technology.
- padewak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5holy POP! I'm SMTPless.
- grimreaperev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sorry about calling you a retard, I'm an idiot sometimes, need to think before I type. :( Sorry again.
- kitkatsavvy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5woah hold on there - Viagra was only released in 1997.. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
- kalphegor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I turn 20 today :)
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2his first act of duty
spam
his second foward good luck emails
third account activations - z00k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Sadly 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 - astrosmash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You know, Gmail's spam filtering is surprisingly good. I've set up a number of public "spam catcher" gmail accounts that forward to my primary email, with the intention of deleting them once the spammers find them. Well, the spammers have found them, but Gmail catches all of it. Last time I logged in to one of the public accounts there were +900 messages in the spam folder.
Email isn't difficult at all. You just need to control who gets your real email address. - mdoom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2nice pic
- DDRRE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2n1 :D
- RenegadeMind, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5@ grimreaperev
You're missing the point. Email was invented in a different era when the current problems weren't anywhere near being a remote concern. (User authentication)
The problem now is that email is horribly outdated but it's in such widespread use that it's virtually impossible to get rid of.
If there were any decent competing technology that could replace it, email would be gone in a heartbeat.
Anyone can send email without any kind of useful identification. That is what has broken email.
Now, please explain to the 'retard' what you don't understand about an outdated technology being broken... - EochaidRiata, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Sadly I've had to move to the last refuge from spam: whitelisting.
Spam Assassin and Thunderbird's filtering were no longer sufficient.
Hopefully someone solves this within the decade: http://www.craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
I've pretty much stopped using email for communications at this point. - LarsHin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Its crazy to think that e-mail is already 35. It didn't really catch on until the 90's and now its almost replaced snailmail. If only something could be done to get rid of spammers. These people need to get a new life and let us use e-mail for its intended propose.
- maram500, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Whoops--hey wait, is that your husband with that guy?
- IvanB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Caption the picture!
- somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Today"?
Wrong. Nobody knows the date the first email was sent.
35?
No, email existed before Tomlinson was involved, for about ten years. He did, however, come up with the idea of using the "@" symbol to separate the username and domain.
But dugg, just because I love the Clare Swires story. - fyre2012, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Tomorrow, SPAM will be celebrating it's 35th birthday!
- xentar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1As 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. http://www.poptray.org
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. - xidica, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1LOL. The picture is indeed hilarious. "Oh wow look at this amazing free offer! Let's click on it!"
Whoops... - leftfoot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm sorry I don't know the actual date when Viagra was introduced.
I'm kinda sorry that you actually do. - Whizky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0happy birthday
- Johnny84, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0well... 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.)
- MasterRaffi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah I enjoy working with email, i dont use it for business use, just for what ever reasons, i check it frequently and most of my friends never reply right a way, i have to wait a week, i personaly like yahoo mail, and i also use aim mail, before i use to use netscape mail, but it was upgraded to AIM mail.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Too bad that after 35 years there are people who still can't spell "E-mail".
- flcnstu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well 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.
- rhettilda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sure email is an amazing invention and really convenient....but it can also slow things down a lot. You can spend more time at work checking email than actually working. And some people are getting scared to talk face-to-face because it's too much human contact. Nonetheless...if email was taken away now, the world would probably not be able to function
- RenegadeMind, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3A 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. - grimreaperev, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5Are you retarded renagade, would you rather send mail via courier? Think of spam as what we have to pay for having a better ways of communicating with the rest of the world. (Besides, without email you would've never got your digg account validated)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0And a Firefox extension to notify of you of new emails:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3799/ - leftfoot, on 10/12/2007, -6/+535 years of free Viagra offers.
- bergur1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2leftfoot
dont you mean free' *Viagra*
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