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You knew this was coming. Terence Eden who blogs at some weird URL called shkspr.mobi, but who is widely known and followed, goes on a small rant about stupid people who still fail to understand how to use the BCC feature. He correctly points out that BCC is part of the original email specification from
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While I’ve been sleeping, the references to email in the news have not let up. AMP Email could be dead. First, let’s celebrate. AMP Email looks to be dead. Buttondown, an email newsletter service provider, wrote an article that made the rounds just this past week. Let’s all hope Ryan Farley, who is somehow writing
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Okay, it’s a clickbait headline. Yes, Brett did in fact say that, but he didn’t imply to use email exclusively. In a recent episode of his wildly popular podcast of 10+ years, in a moment of frustration recounting the myriad apps required of parents to receive information about their children, Brett stumbles into the truth
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Lauren Goode at Wired Magazine wrote a great piece that had my stomach in knots as I read it. She posits that, gasp, the boundaries between our instant messaging culture and what it used to be 25 years ago, when services like AOL Messenger existed, have degraded. She states those boundaries used to be clearer and, quite
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As I increasingly ponder the beauty and wonder of email, such musings often transpose into thoughts on personal correspondence. Email is used for everything from transactional receipts for e-commerce purchases, newsletters, marketing salvos, password resets, and political donation solicitations. Certainly those amazing abilities pale in comparison to our collective use of email for personal and business correspondence. If
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Aside from professional project management, planning and collaborating on personal things – like trips and vacations, family reunions, summer camp options for the kids, or even advice – is best done by email, not specialized collaborative software tools online. Thousands of SaaS businesses want to convince you to use their system to “share and create”,
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It’s been some time since I’ve posted links by others extolling email or its underlying virtues. Sometimes folks inadvertently promote concepts or ideals of email, even though they might not be discussing email directly. I will be trying to do this more frequently. So stay tuned for more, or subscribe to the Just Use Email RSS feed.
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When I recently moved, I made an amateur email mistake. I emailed close friends and family and included a bit too much detail in one single email. In my rush to share, I forgot one of the golden rules of email: what outcome do I want from sending this email? I wrote about the benefits
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For a 6-minute sweeping overview on the three main security standards that help stop email phishing, spam, and help increase deliverability, this video from The InfoSec Academy is about as quick, yet thorough, as it gets. It may leave you with more questions about SPF, DKIM, or DMARC, but that’s a good thing. I’ve worked
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