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Tag Archives: E-Mail
Thursday, February 25th, 2010

I was always under the impression that part of the point of University was to help get people ready to go out into the real world and make a contribution to society.
I can’t help but thinking that the University is trying to not help us in its use of mail software.
“Prayer” (the name of the [...]

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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Since the recent arrival of my Nexus One, I decided it would be a great idea to move all the e-mail for my website over to Google Apps. This enables all the snazzy benefits of the Nexus One, without the polling required to read IMAP mail accounts. Unfortunately my Uni e-mail will still have to [...]

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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

I don’t know if this has ever happened to you, but it happened to me for the first time recently and I don’t think I really want it to happen again.
I’m going to call it “e-mail rage”, but I suppose it may come under many names, depending on who discovered it. I’ve managed to cool [...]

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Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Or: Why I don’t have a mail client installed on my work machine
E-mail may be all well and good; it’s fantastic for instantly communicating across the world, keeping in touch with friends, managing business, and so on. But there’s nothing quite as distracting as that little sound your mail client makes when you have a [...]

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Monday, March 17th, 2008

I’ve noticed an upsurge recently in the number of news articles talking about spam e-mails and the such: it seemed that it was really big a few years ago but the issue disappeared. What makes me wonder why it’s cropped up again is that I don’t actually get any.
That’s not technically accurate. I got 2324 [...]

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