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Afraid that you’ll miss seeing your inbox fill each day with emails from dozens of disparate student organizations and house lists after you graduate? Have no fear! A tip from a recent alum alerted FlyBy to the fact that special-interest e-mail lists exist for Harvard alumni...
Chances are you’ve heard of Hayward-Zhang. It’s popped up in your inbox and been plastered on your dorm windows. If you strolled by the Science Center this week you couldn’t have missed the pumping music and zealous students passionately bellowing the candidates’ names and waving banners. By now, you probably know that George J. J. Hayward ’11 and his running mate Felix M. Zhang ’11 are contending in the Undergraduate Council’s presidential elections this year, with a platform built...
...mail account knows the acute frustration of being inundated with offers of pills from virtual pharmacists, financial propositions from Nigerian princes and pictures for fetish sites that really, really shouldn't exist. Spam has even gone beyond e-mail: like kudzu, it adapts to clog whatever online inbox you might choose. On Oct. 30, the social-networking site Facebook won a $711 million judgment against the self-proclaimed "Spam King" Sanford Wallace. Wallace, a professional e-mail marketer from New Hampshire who also likes to be called Spamford, used ill-gotten passwords to surreptitiously log into user accounts...
...Tyranny of E-Mail: The Four-Thousand-Year Journey to Your Inbox...
...traces how far the epistolary form has come--and lays out a case for why we should take a step back. E-mail might be cheaper, faster and more convenient, but its virtues also make us lazier, lonelier and less articulate. The author's solution: Go easy on that inbox. Don't read e-mails over breakfast or in bed. And think twice before hitting that send button. "This is not the manifesto of a Luddite," Freeman insists, but of a humanitarian. Because, as he observes, "the difference between a smiley face and an actual smile is too large...