Posts Tagged "email"

Tips for Easier Emailing

Posted by on Jun 21, 2010 in Business Tips | 0 comments

4 Tips for Easier Emailing Do you feel like email has taken over your life? Well, you’re not alone – in a recent study by Information Week, over three-quarters of the people surveyed said that email is essential to their lives – and an additional 15% say they’d rather lose their spouse than give up email! It’s important to remember that email is a tool that we can control – one that is meant to improve communication and make our lives easier. To that end, here are four top tips to wrangle that inbox: Smarten up your subject line. Put as much descriptive information in the subject line as possible, and your recipient will know...

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You've been spoofed . . .

Posted by on Jan 19, 2005 in Small Business News | 0 comments

You've been spoofed . . .

Image via Wikipedia For all you non-techie types like me – let me introduce spoofing. Ever get a spam with your return domain name as the sender? It’s a way for the sender to hide their identity – this is “spoofing.” (spoof´ing) (n.) Spoofing may occur in different forms, but all have a similar result: a user receives email that appears to have originated from one source when it actually was sent from another source. Email spoofing is often an attempt to trick the user into making a damaging statement or releasing sensitive information (such as passwords) – see entry on phishing 12/29. If the source seems questionable –...

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