For the past several months, I’ve been helping Gail manage her email. The majority of the time I’ve spent doing so has simply been deleting spam messages. There are a ton of them, and that’s not counting the ones she deletes herself. As comedian and TED speaker James Veitch observes, “The internet gave us access to everything. But it also gave everything access to us.” I have to say, I wish I could deal with email scammers in the same tongue-in-cheek way that Veitch did. Unfortunately, … [Read more...]
Your Newsletter Tastes Like Spam
This is a guest post from Small Business Advisor Vernessa Taylor, better known as @CoachNotesBlog on Twitter. Vernessa is the person I rely on for Linux remote technical support. (She does Windows, VOIP, and much more, too.) Wouldn't You Prefer The Sweet After-Taste of Spanakopita? Checking one of my overflowing email in-boxes, I encountered two email messages that led to this article. Neither one was marked as spam but both were from names I didn't immediately recognize. Not recognizing the … [Read more...]
