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Do Not Let Idiots Send Emails

Seriously, people that do not know how to correctly send emails to a list of people, should get banned from the Internet! It just happened, that my university has sent out a reminder for a student survey. Okay, I am fine with the fact, that they sent it to my private address. But why on […]

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Embed a Counter in Your Spam Messages

I’ve got this email in my inbox – my junk folder to be more precise – today. Notice the counter on the bottom? 987994 people have read this email after 2 and a half hours of sending. Including me. The counter is hosted at a site called “Right Stats” (www.rightstats.com). It looks like a “real […]

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The Perfect Email Signature

I’ve gotten more and more emails with this final line of text Sent from my iPhone Today I’ve added my own, cool and geeky email signature: Sent with Open Source Software from Mozilla This will be my new default signature in my Mozilla Thunderbird client. I also like the following one: This email is: [ […]

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