Tag Archives: email

Poor netiquette #424: Forwards with no summary

Why do people think that it’s useful to drop someone else into an email conversation by forwarding a long thread about a topic with no clear action item? Worse is when the conversation consists of a bunch of top-posting and … Continue reading

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the inbox… here comes Facebook

Most people have learned, by now, that it’s bad Netiquette to forward every little joke, picture, or whatnot to every person they know. It’s OK to forward those cute bunny pictures to the friends who will appreciate them, but just … Continue reading

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Thunderbird 3.0 Release Candidate Just in Time for Thanksgiving

If you just can’t get away from email over the holidays, you can at least help test the release candidate for Thunderbird 3.0. The Mozilla folks released Thunderbird 3.0 RC 1 on Tuesday with more than 100 changes in the … Continue reading

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Automatic BCC’ing with KMail

One must-have feature (for me) in any mail client is the ability to automatically BCC an address with outgoing mail. I use this to log all my outgoing mail so that I can verify that mail was sent, for troubleshooting … Continue reading

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Giving KMail another shot

Sometimes, you find an application that “just works” for you, and that’s it — no further exploration required. For instance, after I got Vim figured out years ago, I’ve had very little need or motivation to really examine other text … Continue reading

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