Interesting Twitter thread on email UI design, vs Slack
really, "pilers" are using the UI that GMail pioneered, where credit is due (as far as I know at least).
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5 weeks ago by jm
"When redesigning Outlook, we found two basic groups of users: pilers and filers. Pilers kept a single, ever-expanding list of mail in their Inbox and then worked it down to "inbox zero." Filers wrote rules or manually filed mail into folders, creating an organizational system.
Filers rely on their bespoke, highly customized knowledge of where things go in their email system, much like you might organize your kitchen in a way that makes sense to you. You know where the strainer or little corn-cob-holders go, and no one else does (or needs to.)
Pilers rely on search to find things in their huge amassed pile. We moved Outlook from the fundamental organization unit of "message" to "conversation" (or "thread") so that when pilers found mail via search, messages would return with the context of the surrounding conversation.
Both pilers and filers have one key thing in common: their systems require an affirmative, discrete action to take a mail out of their list. Filers file to a folder when done with a message, and pilers archive/delete. This turned out to be essential for people to feel in control."
really, "pilers" are using the UI that GMail pioneered, where credit is due (as far as I know at least).
5 weeks ago by jm
Spam is back | The Outline
(via Boing Boing)
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november 2017 by jm
it’s 2017, and spam has clawed itself back from the grave. It shows up on social media and dating sites as bots hoping to lure you into downloading malware or clicking an affiliate link. It creeps onto your phone as text messages and robocalls that ring you five times a day about luxury cruises and fictitious tax bills. Networks associated with the buzzy new cryptocurrency system Ethereum have been plagued with spam. Facebook recently fought a six-month battle against a spam operation that was administering fake accounts in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and other countries. Last year, a Chicago resident sued the Trump campaign for allegedly sending unsolicited text message spam; this past November, ZDNet reported that voters were being inundated with political text messages they never signed up for. Apps can be horrid spam vectors, too — TechCrunch writer Jordan Crook wrote in April about how she idly downloaded an app called Gather that promptly spammed everyone in her contact list. Repeated mass data breaches that include contact information, such as the Yahoo breach in which 3 billion user accounts were exposed, surely haven’t helped. Meanwhile, you, me, and everyone we know is being plagued by robocalls. “There is no recourse for me,” lamented Troy Doliner, a student in Boston who gets robocalls every day. “I am harassed by a faceless entity that I cannot track down.”
“I think we had a really unique set of circumstances that created this temporary window where spam was in remission,” said Finn Brunton, an assistant professor at NYU who wrote Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet, “and now we’re on the other side of that, with no end in sight.”
(via Boing Boing)
november 2017 by jm
How to Easily Unsubscribe from Bulk Emails in Gmail - Unroll.me Alternative
august 2017 by jm
nice Google Script which runs in the background and scrapes out unsubscribe links. I'm drowning in single-opt-in mainsleaze newsletters at this stage so this is very welcome
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gmail
google
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one-bite-of-the-apple
august 2017 by jm
After Seven Years, Microsoft Is Finally Fixing the "J" Email Bug
may 2017 by jm
True story: when I started at Amazon, I thought people were using "J" instead of smileys as shorthand for "joking". Great job Microsoft!
(via Tony Finch)
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(via Tony Finch)
may 2017 by jm
My wife found my email in the Ashley Madison database
august 2015 by jm
On misdirected emails and the potential side-effects:
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gmail
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The reasons why these people give out my email instead of one that they can access have always been a bit mysterious to me. It’s one thing to save yourself some spam by using a throwaway address. But why use someone else’s for correspondence you actually want to receive? The closest I’ve come to a working theory is that a lot of them, having been slow off the mark to obtain their own gmail, have addresses like eratliff75@gmail.com. Either they believe they can leave off the numbers and receive the messages anyway, or they often simply forget. That or the E. Ratliffs of the world just view eratliff@gmail.com as some kind of shared resource.
august 2015 by jm
Groups.io Update
march 2015 by jm
Some neat new features for Mark Fletcher's mailing-lists-as-a-service site: Markdown support, manageable archives (GREAT feature!), subgroups, calendars, files and wiki.
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march 2015 by jm
Epsilon Interactive breach the Fukushima of the Email Industry (CAUCE)
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pii
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phishing
identity-theft
security
ads
march 2015 by jm
Upon gaining access to an ESP, the criminals then steal subscriber data (PII such as names, addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses, and in one case, Vehicle Identification Numbers). They then use ESPs’ mailing facility to send spam; to monetize their illicit acquisition, the criminals have spammed ads for fake Adobe Acrobat and Skype software.
On March 30, the Epsilon Interactive division of Alliance Data Marketing (ADS on NASDAQ) suffered a massive breach that upped the ante, substantially. Email lists of at least eight financial institutions were stolen.
Thus far, puzzlingly, Epsilon has refused to release the names of compromised clients. [...] The obvious issue at hand is the ability of the thieves to now undertake targeted spear-phishing problem as critically serious as it could possibly be.
march 2015 by jm
The VATMOSS debacle: does the "manual email" loophole work?
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vatmoss
eu
tax
fiasco
email
microbusiness
sme
december 2014 by jm
As the 1 January deadline gallops towards the EU, microbusinesses desperate to stay open without breaking the law try to find out, "Can I email stuff out instead?" Well... Yes. - No - It depends - and simultaneously yes AND no, according to Schrödinger’s VAT. So that's clear, then.
december 2014 by jm
Scaling email transparency
december 2014 by jm
This is quite interesting/weird -- Stripe's protocol for mass-CCing email as they scale up the company, based around http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_inattention
communication
culture
email
management
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cc
transparency
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december 2014 by jm
Introducing Groups.io
september 2014 by jm
Mark "ONEList" Fletcher's back, and he's reinventing the email group! awesome.
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email groups (the modern version of mailing lists) have stagnated over the past decade. Yahoo Groups and Google Groups both exude the dank air of benign neglect. Google Groups hasn’t been updated in years, and some of Yahoo’s recent changes have actually made Yahoo Groups worse! And yet, millions of people put up with this uncertainty and neglect, because email groups are still one of the best ways to communicate with groups of people. And I have a plan to make them even better.
So today I’m launching Groups.io in beta, to bring email groups into the 21st Century. At launch, we have many features that those other services don’t have, including:
Integration with other services, including: Github, Google Hangouts, Dropbox, Instagram, Facebook Pages, and the ability to import Feeds into your groups.
Businesses and organizations can have their own private groups on their own subdomain.
Better archive organization, using hashtags.
Many more email delivery options.
The ability to mute threads or hashtags.
Fully searchable archives, including searching within attachments.
One other feature that Groups.io has that Yahoo and Google don’t, is a business model that’s not based on showing ads to you. Public groups are completely free on Groups.io. Private groups and organizations are very reasonably priced.
september 2014 by jm
DIRECT MARKETING - A GENERAL GUIDE FOR DATA CONTROLLERS
september 2014 by jm
In particular:
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spam
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ireland
law
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direct-marketing
Where you have obtained contact details in the context of the sale of a product or service, you may only use these details for direct marketing by electronic mail if the following conditions are met:
the product or service you are marketing is of a kind similar to that which you sold to the customer at the time you obtained their contact details
At the time you collected the details, you gave the customer the opportunity to object, in an easy manner and without charge, to their use for marketing purposes
Each time you send a marketing message, you give the customer the right to object to receipt of further messages
The sale of the product or service occurred not more than twelve months prior to the sending of the electronic marketing communication or, where applicable, the contact details were used for the sending of an electronic marketing communication in that twelve month period.
september 2014 by jm
SI336 - current Irish anti-spam law
september 2014 by jm
"European Communities (Electronic Communications Networks and Services) (Privacy and Electronic Communications) Regulations 2011". Spam is covered under 13.1, "Unsolicited communications", on page 16 of this PDF
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september 2014 by jm
Irish Water Data Protection Notice: A review…
september 2014 by jm
Tried and came up wanting. Particularly notable for its illegal "Marketing" section, which attempts to evade opt-in-required anti-spam law with a "consent landgrab" on SMS and email
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september 2014 by jm
Google's new end-to-end key distribution proposal
august 2014 by jm
'For End-To-End, our current approach to key distribution, is to use a model similar to Certificate Transparency, and use the email messages themselves as a gossip protocol, which allow the users themselves to keep the centralized authorities honest. This approach allows users to not have to know about keys, but at the same time, be able to make sure that the servers involved aren't doing anything malicious behind the users' back.'
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august 2014 by jm
Delivery Notifications for Simple Email Service
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smtp
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june 2014 by jm
Today we are enhancing SES with the addition of delivery notifications. You can now elect to receive an Amazon SNS notification each time SES successfully delivers a message to a recipient's email server. These notifications give you increased visibility into the mail delivery process. With today's release, you can now track deliveries, bounces, and complaints, all via notification to the SNS topic or topics of your choice.
june 2014 by jm
How Gmail Happened: The Inside Story of Its Launch 10 Years Ago Today
april 2014 by jm
the inside story of the great work done by Paul Buchheit, Kevin Fox, and Sanjeev Singh to reinvent email in 2004
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april 2014 by jm
RTE star Sharon Ni Bheolain stalked for six months - Independent.ie
february 2014 by jm
as @Fergal says: '[this] case shows (a) the internet isn't anonymous, (b) we [ie. Ireland -jm] have laws to deal with threats and harassment'
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ireland
harassment
internet
twitter
email
abuse
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february 2014 by jm
"Hackers" unsubscribed a former Mayor from concerned citizen's emails
february 2014 by jm
"The dog ate my homework, er, I mean, hackers hacked my account."
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Former Mayor of Kildare, Cllr. Michael Nolan, has denied a claim he asked a local campaigner to stop e-mailing him. Cllr. Michael Nolan from Newbridge said his site was hacked and wrong e-mails were sent out to a number of people, including Leixlip based campaigner, John Weigel.
Mr. Weigel has been campaigning, along with others, about the danger of electromagnetic radiation to humans and the proximity of communications masts to homes and, in particular schools. He regularly updates local politicians on news items relating to the issue.
Recently, he said that he had received an e-mail from Cllr. Nolan asking to be removed from Mr. Weigel’s e-mail list.
The Leader asked Cllr. Nolan why he had done this. But the Fine Gael councillors said that “his e-mail account was hacked and on one particular day a number of mails a were sent from my account pertaining to be from me.”
february 2014 by jm
Dark Mail Alliance
october 2013 by jm
Founded by Silent Circle and Lavabit. this is promising....
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surveillance
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smtp
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crypto
To bring the world our unique end-to-end encrypted protocol and architecture that is the 'next-generation' of private and secure email. As founding partners of The Dark Mail Alliance, both Silent Circle and Lavabit will work to bring other members into the alliance, assist them in implementing the new protocol and jointly work to proliferate the worlds first end-to-end encrypted 'Email 3.0' throughout the world's email providers. Our goal is to open source the protocol and architecture and help others implement this new technology to address privacy concerns against surveillance and back door threats of any kind.
october 2013 by jm
Spamalot reigns: the spoils of Ireland’s EU kingship | The Irish Times - Thu, Jun 13, 2013
Fantastic article from Karlin Lillington in today's Times on the terrible amendments proposed for the EU's data protection law.
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june 2013 by jm
The spam presidency. As European citizens are made the miserable targets of unimpeded “direct marketing”, that may be how Ireland’s stint in the EU presidency seat is recalled for years to come.
Under the guiding hand of Minister for Justice Alan Shatter, the Council of the European Union has submitted proposals for amendments to a proposed new data protection regulation, all of which overwhelmingly favour business and big organisations, not citizens.
The most obviously repugnant and surprising element in the amendments is a watering down of existing protections for EU citizens against the willy-nilly marketing Americans are forced to endure. In the US there are few meaningful restrictions on what businesses can do with people’s personal information when pitching products and services at them.
In the EU, this has always been strictly controlled; information gathered for one purpose cannot be used by a business to sell whatever it wants – unless you have opted in to receive such solicitations. This means you are not constantly bombarded by emails and junk mail, nor do you get non-stop phone calls from telemarketers.
Under the proposed amendments to the draft data protection regulation, direct marketing would become a legal form of data processing. In effect, this would legitimise spam email, junk print mail and marketing calls. This unexpected provision signals just how successful powerful corporate lobbyists have been in convincing ministers that business matters more than privacy or giving citizens reasonable control over their personal information.
Far worse is contained in other amendments, which in effect turn the original draft of the regulation upside down.
Fantastic article from Karlin Lillington in today's Times on the terrible amendments proposed for the EU's data protection law.
june 2013 by jm
Jamming Tripoli: Inside Moammar Gadhafi's Secret Surveillance Network
may 2012 by jm
The very scary future of state control, censorship, and totalitarianism in the age of the internet. A presentation from Amesys, a subsidiary of Bull S.A. "explained the significance of Eagle to a government seeking to control activities inside its borders. Warning of an “increasing need of high-level intelligence in the constant struggle against criminals and terrorism,” the document touted Eagle’s ability to capture bulk Internet traffic passing through conventional, satellite, and mobile phone networks, and then to store that data in a filterable and searchable database. This database, in turn, could be integrated with other sources of intelligence, such as phone recordings, allowing security personnel to pick through audio and data from a given person all at once, in real time or by historical time stamp. In other words, instead of choosing targets and monitoring them, officials could simply sweep up everything, sort it by time and target, and then browse through it later at their leisure. The title of the presentation -- ”From Lawful to Massive Interception” -- gestured at the vast difference between so-called lawful intercept (traditional law enforcement surveillance based on warrants for specific phone numbers or IP addresses) and what Amesys was offering."
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censorship
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libya
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surveillance
may 2012 by jm
Mailinator(tm) Blog: How Mailinator compresses email by 90%
february 2012 by jm
Quite a lot of work for an extra 5% ;)
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caching
algorithms
compression
email
february 2012 by jm
Near Neighbor Search in High Dimensional Data [PDF]
february 2012 by jm
Detect near-duplicates; would be good for future Razor-like efficient near-duplicate detection. (slides)
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email
performance
programming
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february 2012 by jm
EMAIL AND BACON
october 2010 by jm
This car has everything (via Box Of Meat)
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bacon
car
funny
lol
demotivational
posters
from delicious
october 2010 by jm
More Best of the Email - The Daily WTF
march 2010 by jm
the "45-hour workweek vs 80-hour vacation" one is a bureaucratic classic
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from delicious
march 2010 by jm
DNS Pre-fetch Exposure on Thunderbird and Webmail
january 2010 by jm
Ugh, very bad idea indeed. A backchannel for spammers/phishers/attackers from the mail reader is something we definitely do not want to provide. This is why we chose to cut URLs at the registrar boundary for URIBL lookups in SpamAssassin
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from delicious
january 2010 by jm
AOL sacks pretty much the entire US postmaster team
january 2010 by jm
'This is a totally devastating blow to everyone'
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anti-spam
layoffs
postmaster
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smtp
from delicious
january 2010 by jm
Sup, OfflineIMAP and MSMTP
november 2009 by jm
A good guide to installation on Jaunty. I'm trying out sup. It does a really good job of bringing the GMail experience to the commandline, so far so good; now to see if I can switch my work email over!
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november 2009 by jm
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