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Jewish World Review
E-mail @ 35
By
Randy A. Salas
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com |
(MCT) E-mail recently turned 35. You might have thought you were at the forefront of technology when you were sending electronic mail in the early '90s, but East Coast computer pioneer Ray Tomlinson created e-mail as we know it today in 1971, when he used the @ symbol in the address to separate the user from the computer and sent the message from one system to another. I didn't even bake a cake for e-mail's 35th anniversary. But if I had, I would have taken a photo of it and e-mailed it to as many people as I know who would have then forwarded it to their friends.
www.bl.net/forwards Brian Larson's Email Forwards collects cool and funny things some of it adult humor that the iTunes production manager has received in forwarded e-mails. Entries range from everything written on the chalkboard by Bart in the opening of "The Simpsons" to several dozen "Yo Mama" jokes ("Yo momma so fat, when she gets on the scale it says, 'To be continued.' ") I liked "M&M Duels," in which the writer recounts squeezing two M&M's together to see which one remains uncrushed; the survivor is pitted against another candy until one True Champion emerges from the bag.
www.internetbumperstickers.com Internet Bumper Stickers provides free sayings, with designs to look like car bumper stickers, that you can paste into your e-mails. (Click on the links under "How to ..." in the More Stuff menu to find out how to save and add a sticker to your e-mails.) More than 2,800 stickers are available.
www.mailfool.com MailFool is a rather devious service that lets you e-mail anyone but make it look as if the message was sent by someone else. To a casual observer, the message looks authentic, with the fake sender's name and e-mail address in the proper fields. But the website warns against using the service for fraud. Senders must provide a real e-mail address, which is sent a confirmation number that has to be entered at the site before the fake message can be sent. A tag at the end of the fake e-mail notes that it was sent using MailFool and gives an ID number so that the recipient can see who really sent it. Still, MailFool is fun for a prank.
www.spammimic.com Several online services help you send coded and encrypted e-mails to friends, but Spam Mimic does it more covertly by making your message look like junk mail. Just enter the text you want to encode, and the site will turn it into spam prose ("Dear E-Commerce professional , Especially for you this breath-taking news ... ") that you can paste into your e-mail program. The recipient then copies and pastes the spam text at the site to decode it. Cool as long as the recipient's e-mail service doesn't filter out the encoded message as spam.
www.netmanners.com/netiquette_101.html How is your e-mail etiquette, or Netiquette? NetManners will fill you in on "10 Little Common Courtesies" that everyone should practice when sending e-mail, such as knowing basic rules (don't leave the subject field blank, for instance) and spell-checking. www.snopes.com Forwarded e-mails we all get them. But, jokes aside, which ones can you believe? Is Applebee's giving away free gift certificates? No. Did Starbucks refuse to send free stuff to soldiers in Iraq? No. Do popular lipsticks contain dangerous amounts of lead? No. Sixteen of the 25 Hottest Urban Legends at Snopes deal with e-mail claims. Next time someone forwards an e-mail to you, visit Snopes to check its veracity.
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Randy A. Salas is a columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Do you have a favorite Web site or a question about how to find something on the Internet? Send a note by clicking here.
Previously:
Idle chatter
Funny money
Classic artwork in motion
For an unusual Thanksgiving
Your slip is showing
Best of the worst
Test your mind power
Remain anonymous
© 2006, Star Tribune Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.
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