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Point of story: at a university where life moves at a breakneck pace, we all need a little more time to ourselves. I say close your inbox, shut off your cell phone and if you’ve got the cash, purchase that iPod. Harvard may be connected, but you don’t always have...
...administrative e-mails delight students like package notification e-mails. Sometimes the notice means a surprise gift, sometimes it’s a shipment of textbooks and sometimes the package simply contains all the belongings that wouldn’t fit on the plane. But whatever the case, an inbox with a package notification e-mail almost always brings a smile to a student’s face. In the past few weeks, however, all too many of these important e-mails went unsent, and as a result students’ packages idled away in increasingly infamous package depots. While...
...particular, he says, his academics took something of a hit this semester as he struggled to sort through the 200 e-mails flooding his inbox each...
...late 1990s. Naturally, the producer of SPAM™ Luncheon Meat (Hormel recommends writing the name of their product in this way to keep intentions clear) wanted to avoid an association between their celebrated canned spiced ham product and the worthless artificially-fabricated garbage that stuffs your inbox...
...what can we do to take back our inboxes? On the technical side of things, Harvard has given us access to some of the best (though still imperfect) spam filtering tools—you can enable the ominously named SpamAssassin for your inbox by typing blockmail at the fas% prompt instead of pine (or, for those of you with no idea what I’m talking about, by going to http://www.fas.harvard.edu/computing/myaccount/). These tools learn from the spam they receive, so they’re always improving as they play a never-ending tit-for-tat with...