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Bill would crack down on unwanted e-mail |
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A bill before Ohio lawmakers would force people who repeatedly send unwanted e-mails known as spam to pay ten dollars per message if found guilty of the practice. The bill, sponsored by Senator Ron Amstutz, a Wooster Republican, generally prohibits people or businesses from sending unsolicited e-mail advertisements. ... »
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March 5, 2001 |
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Vendaria Unveils Streaming Video E-mail |
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Seattle-based Vendaria Inc., a provider of streaming video solutions for sales, marketing and merchandising, unveiled today its latest product: Enliven Video Mail. The patent-pending application — which has nothing to do with rich media banner ad firm Enliven — allows streaming videos to be embedded into an HTML e-mail. "Consumers are bombarded daily with e-mails, many of which lack a comprehensive and compelling message," says Scott Ferris, CEO and president of Vendaria. "Distinguishing your campaign from that of your competitor is vital" ... »
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March 5, 2001 |
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U of I wants to focus e-mail |
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Iowa City, Ia. - The University of Iowa wants to use e-mail in a bigger way to contact alumni, donors and potential students. The trick is doing it in a way that doesn't irritate people, many of whom already delete dozens of messages with barely a glance, said Michael Barron, U of I director of admissions. Communications from large universities are generally thought of as impersonal, but "people want to feel like you know who they are," Barron said. So, he said, the U of I wants to categorize alumni, donors or potential students by their interests, career fields or locations ... »
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March 5, 2001 |
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E-mail inundates State BOE |
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State Board of Education members are getting the message loud and clear from both sides about their decision last month to include evolution in science standards. They have received thousands of e-mails in the wake of that 7-3 vote, which reversed a 1999 decision that downplayed evolution and attracted national and international attention to the Sunflower State. The new standards describe evolution as a theory unifying all scientific disciplines and include references to geologic time and the big bang theory of the universe's creation. State assessments — which students across Kansas take every year — are based on the state standards ... »
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March 5, 2001 |
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Hotmail sharing subscribers' e-mail addresses |
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Hotmail, the free e-mail service from Microsoft, is divulging subscribers' e-mail addresses, cities and states to a public Internet directory site that combines the information with telephone numbers and home addresses. Hotmail customers are automatically added to Infospace's Internet White Pages directory unless they remove the check from a box in their registration form and ``opt out,'' company officials said ... »
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March 3, 2001 |
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The e-mails of life and death |
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THE treatment that John received for his throat cancer meant that he lost his tongue — and so his voice. This was devastating for John as he loved to talk and he was good at it. But there was another thing he loved to do: send e-mails. Before most people used the thing, John was surfing the Net and chatting online. He even wrote a very early Internet column for The Times Magazine. So there was an aptness to what, by necessity, became the way we talked ... »
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March 2, 2001 |
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Digital Landscape: Painter sends samples via e-mail |
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Two Republican leaders have built large e-mail lists through the issue-advocacy efforts of their political action committees. The e-mail list of Arizona Sen. John McCain's Straight Talk America PAC has topped 142,000 subscribers. Oklahoma Rep. J.C. Watts, chairman of the House Republican conference, operates a list with more than 60,000 subscribers through his American Renewal PAC ... »
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March 2, 2001 |
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Denise Rich Donations Flowed |
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Denise Rich, ex-wife of pardoned fugitive Marc Rich, pushed nearly $500,000 toward Democratic causes after a Rich confidant sent an e-mail saying she should be sent on a '"personal' mission to NO1" – whom congressional investigators identify as President Clinton. Republicans and a federal prosecutor in New York have been trying to find out whether there was a money-for-pardon deal in Clinton's grant of clemency to the billionaire commodities trader. Rich, who fled the United States in 1983 rather than face racketeering and other criminal charges, was pardoned by Clinton on Jan. 20 just before George W. Bush assumed the presidency ... »
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March 1, 2001 |
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`Virtual Card' could be a fatal e-mail virus |
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A latest Internet virus, which comes as an e-mail attachment, is currently wreaking havoc among thousands of Netizens who have fallen prey to it. The virus, whose slug states `you have received a virtual card' is barely 48 hours old, and has currently made its presence felt in the United States. It affects a critical part of the user's hard disk, thereby virtually disengaging most operations of the personal computer. ... »
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March 1, 2001 |
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ADSL, e-mail problems send ripple through BigPond |
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Telstra's ADSL customers throughout Australia have had services restored earlier this week after an undisclosed technical problem saw many of them lose access. Telstra Internet spokesman Stuart Gray said the company's ADSL customers were plagued with intermittent authentication server problems which caused congestion in lines supplying ADSL connections at the weekend. ... »
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