In order to take advantage of clickable email addresses on web pages, you need to tell your web browser which email package you use. Whether your email client is a software package (such as Eudora or Outlook Express) or a …[Continue]
Educational Newsletters
Email newsletters are a convenient way to keep up with what’s happening online. My favorite educational newsletters are Inside Britannica, Discovery Education and, of course, the weekly Surfnetkids newsletter I publish….[Continue]
Challenge/Response
In an effort to control unwanted e-mail, some are turning to Challenge/Response, an email filtering system that checks incoming mail against a white list of approved addresses (such as your personal address book.) If the sender is not on the …[Continue]
Internet Faxing
There are many ways to send and receive faxes over the Internet. Interpage allows you to send free text faxes from your web browser as a demo of their paid service. eFax is another paid service that allows you to …[Continue]
Segregating Newsletters
In these days of e-mail overload, segregating newsletter subscriptions into a separate e-mail account can be just what you need to help you cope. Free web accounts are perfect for this, as long as you remember to login frequently and …[Continue]
Spam
Spam is unsolicited commercial e-mail. Its original use as a technology word dates back to Usenet newsgroups, where “to spam” meant “to flood a newsgroup with irrelevant messages.” To learn more about the origins of “spam” and other recently coined …[Continue]
Mispelled Nicknames in Outlook
If you have misspelled nicknames or e-mail addresses in Outlook, your important messages may be sent to the wrong address. If editing the erroneous address book entry doesn’t work, try deleting and reentering the address. If this fails, you might …[Continue]
Dictionary and Thesaurs
For those times when a dictionary is nowhere in sight, but your email-enabled cell phone is handy, check out the free dictionary and thesaurus email services from Wordsmith.org. To access, send an email to wsmith@wordsmith.org with a command (“define” or …[Continue]
