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Purging Public E-Mails: When to Say No: ABC News discusses a number of the recent cases where government officials ordered the deletion of official emails and their backups. The article also describes the great inconsistencies between various states and agencies in archiving and retention policies.
Xobni Can Make Good Old Email Even More Useful: In his [...]

Email Hacking Going Commercial: Dancho Danchev writes on his blog about a commercial service that uses a software package with a collection of security vulnerabilities (many are Cross Site Scripting/XSS attacks) combined with a network of contractors, a validation service, and several payment options all wrapped up in a single commercial service. This is yet [...]

Why I Made Emailchemy: Matt Hovey is the developer behind Emailchemy, a highly capable email conversion tool that is able to convert between a wide range of email applications and services. In this post, he writes about how his desire to move mail between the variety of systems of his school and work institutions that [...]

Basic HTML-based forms are ubiquitous on the web. They are used for everything from service sign ups to collecting demographic information to opinion surveys. The forms are created a variety of methods including applications such as Dreamweaver, hosted services such as Zoho Creator, and hand coding in PHP or another template language. Recently, I wanted [...]

Adobe’s PDF format now an ISO standard: AppleInsider reports on the official acceptance of Adobe’s Portable Document Format as ISO Standard number 32000. This means that ISO is officially in control of the PDF standard.
RealSnailMail: is a research/performance art project to have snails outfitted so that they can store and deliver electronic messages (snail [...]