A friend has evidence that people are sending him emails that he never receives. He has asked me what he can do about it. This is not a new problem. Email never has been a secure or certain method of delivering messages. For example in an article “Too Many Lost Emails Leave us Unconnected“, written …
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On the dangers of personalising email subject lines
Over the years I’ve use the fact that spambots don’t know who I am to help immediately identify spam. Any message that includes by email username (usually mbaker) in the subject is almost certainly spam. However today I received an email with the subject: Hi Michael Please read this document!