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Howard Dean is hardly what you would call a high-tech guru. The former Vermont Governor, whose trademark look is a blue shirt with rolled-up sleeves, is a mostly gadget-free zone. He does not carry a BlackBerry email pager or tablet PC (he leaves those to his aides). And don't expect to find Dean, 54, surfing the Web for hours at home. "I kind of missed the Internet boom," concedes the physician...
...They act as a means to open up lines of communication between the two parties,” he writes in an e-mail. “And they demand a response. It’s easy to forget to return a voicemail, or ignore an email. But the paper trail is difficult to cover-up with letters like this...
...according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), 66% of spam are spoofs of one sort or another. Brian Westby, a porn-website owner based in St. Louis, Mo., was a classic spoofer: the subjects for his Xrated spam included "Good evening," "What's going on?" and "Please resend the email." Westby's spam deluged a bank in Santa Barbara, Calif., and an Internet service provider in Coatesville, Pa., some of whose clients angrily canceled their service. The FTC finally got a federal judge in Chicago to shut down Westby's operation. A trial is pending...
...complainants have actively attempted to avoid spam by placing themselves on an opt-out list. Critics say opting out could become as disruptive as deleting spam is now. If all 23 million businesses in America decided to send you just one message a year, that would give you 600 emails a day to opt out from. Worse still, unsolicited email would effectively be protected by law, provided it had the fig leaf of an opt-out clause. "This is a federal license to spam," complains Andrew Barrett, director of the consumer group SpamCon...
...HOTMAIL The filters built in to MSN's free mail service are easy to manage and work reasonably well. Using a simple menu, you set the threshold from moderate to exclusive. The highest level accepts email only from people listed in your address book or from domains you put on your safe list (newsletters you subscribe to, websites you've shopped at, etc.). You can have spam deleted immediately, but if you've chosen the most aggressive filtering option, you'll probably want to set up a junk-mail folder that you can scan for false positives (then retrieve them...