Breaking the Chain: Netiquette Experts Frown on Chain E-Mails
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By Nicole WhiteA 13-year-old girl did this and her Army dad came home from Iraq. A 45-year-old spinster did it and found true love with a FedEx deliveryman. They had one thing in common: both had followed the instructions sent via an online chain letter.
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Spammers have come close to ruining e-mail--and threaten to do the same to Internet telephony. The time to stop them is now.
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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- This scenario is all too familiar to office workers who collaborate electronically on projects: E-mails get passed around with differing versions of documents-in-progress attached. Instant messages whiz by. Websites are cited, then lost.
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Some years ago, I got a job doing network support for the District Attorneyâs office in a large city that shall remain nameless. When I arrived, the network was a mess! Malware was rampant, Internet and WAN connections were saturated, and users were constantly complaining about slow computers and network performance. Even so, my attempts to enforce a mindful security policy were met with fierce resistance. The attitude among the legal staff was, âThis is my computer and my network; youâre just a computer janitor.â
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Spam messages are increasingly plaguing e-mail inboxes, but more Internet users are accepting them as a fact of life, a new study has found.
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Though communications protections exist, the law is fuzzy regarding internet and e-mail activity. Watch out for the legalization of digital mind readers tracing internet users' thoughts and interests, and trampling privacy rights in the process.
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Just 4% would give account details New research indicates that online banking users are getting more savvy when it comes to responding to e-mails purporting to come from banks and building societies.â¦
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The best strategies for coping with electronic overload.
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By TINA FIRESHEETS  How did we ever communicate without e--mail?  There was a time when scheduling appointments, updating information and sharing jokes actually required people talking to one another.
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Nine out of ten driven to defect British consumers are unhappy with the time it takes for email queries to be answered, according to a new report.â¦
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Internet companies have begun to change the way e-mail works in order to weed out spam, but experts on Tuesday clashed over whether the underlying technology should be controlled by any one company.
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GADFLY ALREADY the internet age has given us 'phishing', when criminals use emails to persuade you to give them your bank details.  Now it seems we have the less crooked but nonetheless enraging online experience of 'philfing'  an acronym for 'purposely hiding what I'm looking for'.
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In the Internet age, making telephone contact with a human for customer service is a daunting task. But some consumers have found ways around the blockade.
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Challenge/response e-mails accidentally marked as spam by AOL and EarthLink.
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Do you have any suggestions for individuals and small businesses to combat spam?
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For years, spam haters have relied on junk-mail filters and Internet blacklists, but some are saying it's time for a change in tactics.
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Letters: On the need for a code of behavior for the Internet.