Category «E-Mail»

New MS Office Includes Self Destructing E-Mail Feature

The BBC reports that Microsoft Office 2003, available tomorrow, will include new e-mail privacy and security features, including the ability to designate specific readers, prevent message forwarding and printing, and a “time-stamp” which results in email deletion on a specified date. For more product details, see also Inside Office 2003, from PCWorld.com

Subjects: E-Mail, Microsoft

Marketing Associations Issue E-Mail Guidelines

From the press release: “Based on direct input from members, the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA), the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), and the Direct Marketing Association (The DMA) today released a set of nine guidelines that call on marketers to institute certain practices that will defend and enhance the viability of legitimate e-mail …

Subjects: E-Mail

Appeals Ct. Decision May Open Way for Expanded Choice of Broadband Providers

U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 10/06/03, 02-70518, Brand X Internet Services v. FCC. From the Washington Post: “Currently, the vast majority of the nation’s approximately 14 million homes that subscribe to cable high-speed Internet service have no choice when it comes to their service provider. If the ruling survives a likely appeal, the decision …

Subjects: Courts, E-Mail, Internet

New on LLRX.com

The following new articles were published this week on LLRX.com: How Dewey Classify OCLC’s Lawsuit Knowledge Management is a Business Imperative The Future of RSS – Is E-Mail Publishing Dead? WTO/GATT Research Update to Introduction to the Swiss Legal System: A Guide for Foreign Researchers Lexis and Westlaw Changes and Wishlist FOIA Facts: Inside the …

Subjects: E-Mail, Freedom of Information, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Marketing

California Anti-Spam Law Sets Nationwide Standard

From Spam Laws, the text of California Business and Professions Code, Division 7, Part 3, Chapter 1, Article 1.8. , Restrictions On Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Advertisers (added by S.B. 186, approved September 23, 2003), and signed by Gov. Gray Davis yesterday, effective January 1, 2004. California law will try to banish e-mail spam California spam …

Subjects: E-Mail, Privacy

UK Criminalizes Spam

According to a BBC News article from September 18: “The UK has made spam a criminal offence to try to stop the flood of unsolicited messages. Under the new law, spammers could be fined £5,000 in a magistrates court or an unlimited penalty from a jury.” This law comes via the Minister of State for …

Subjects: E-Mail

Software Apps to Block Spam

Interesting article about several companies that provide their anti-spam software to dozens of ISPs, which is in turn used to block billions and billions of unwanted emails each month on the enterprise and home user level.

Subjects: E-Mail