MetaFilter posts tagged with email and computers

Pop goes the Gmail

sunexplodes — Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:00:19 -0800

Ain't this grand? Pop Goes the Gmail is a program that sits between the http://gmail.com web server and your email client, converting messages from web format into POP3 format that a program such as Outlook Express or Thunderbird can understand.

Avril Lavigne Virus

mary8nne — Thu, 09 Jan 2003 15:10:26 -0800

The latest fad. You know you're really famous when there is a virus named after you. Avril lavigne gets digital punk.

Cloudmark SpamNet

skallas — Thu, 19 Dec 2002 19:37:48 -0800

Distributed spam filtering. Sure, your spam filter may be hot stuff, but Spamnet takes filtering to the communal level. With its easy install, point and click simplicity, and Outlook support could Spamnet be the SpamCop for the masses?

feelinglistless — Tue, 24 Apr 2001 15:19:29 -0800

Those British boys at it again. It was like this during the war, y'know. I remember my old mate Alan Turing beating the system in much the same way. Saved the world he did. Tally-ho.

Firda — Tue, 06 Mar 2001 23:48:57 -0800

Naked Wife Virus Strips Down Computers. The virus arrives as an e-mail titled "Fw: Naked Wife" with a message body that reads: "My wife never look like that! ;-) Best Regards, (sender's name here)" and an attachment called "NakedWife.exe."

greyscale — Tue, 09 May 2000 18:46:58 -0800

since people who use Linux as a client OS are generally geeks, they tend to use one of the ugly, unfriendly default mail programs that ship with Linux distributions: from IDG with love. I hardly call it ugly if it saves your ass and your virtual "Billions."

mathowie — Sun, 21 Nov 1999 16:58:48 -0800

Today on a web list I subscribe to, some members were complaining about spam and the need for sites to have privacy policies that promise not to sell your address. I have a hotmail address that I use whenever a site requires an email address and doesn't post a privacy policy. I hadn't checked my account in a month, but I did today and look what was in it. 74 useless messages in 30 days. Thanks spammers.