When we are emailing businesses (including when making travel bookings) we are surprised by the number of people who do not bother to respond appropriately, or at all.
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Email Etiquette
Yahoo / Xtra Email Hack & Changeover
The logins and personal information of over 500 million Yahoo users have been hacked and stolen.
Yahoo has been the email provider for Xtra customers (though this is changing soon). It is believed that around 130,000 Xtra email accounts are affected this time. In 2013 400,000 accounts were hacked.
According to Yahoo, the data may include Continue reading
Yahoo killing passwords?
Are you sick of having all those passwords? A new Yahoo app aims to get rid of those by sending a notification to a user’s smartphone.
Not sure if that will work well or not but it is aimed at making things easier for Yahoo mail users and attracting more customers to this.
Yahoo mail had 190 million users in August 2015 while Google Gmail had 411 million and increasing.
More market dominance by Google!
Watch for dead email addresses
I have said this before but let me say it again!
Always use an enduring email address for domain records and Internet accounts
Now let me say that again!
Always use an enduring email address for domain records and Internet accounts
Do not use addresses that may go our of date and disappear! And ensure any address that you are using is always monitored for important messages. Continue reading
How to unsend an email
Have you ever sent an email and then immediately regretted it or realised you made a mistake in the content? I know of someone who ended up in a nasty defamation case because of that – they replied to the wrong person with an imprudent email.
Well Gmail is making Undo Send a standard feature. What it actually does is delay the message send for up to 30 seconds to give you a chance to change your mind. You determine the time in your general settings. Kind of a cooling off period.
Following a general rule of email etiquette will help you as well and mean that you won’t need this feature. Never write anything in an email that would embarrass you if it ended up in the wrong person’s mailbox. Emails frequently get forwarded to a number of other people so can easily go somewhere you were not expecting them to end up. Always assume that that could happen and write emails accordingly.
See the article at http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11471228
Spam from your fridge?
Is your fridge spamming you?
Seriously! Is it? Sending you emails?
As more and more devices become Internet enabled the potential for more security issues arise
The same article talking about McAfee (see above) said the following