Tickets to an upcoming sporting event. A receipt from the Nike store for running shoes I bought last weekend. A local newsletter I open every day. Those emails and 82 others were among the legitimate ...

An email etiquette issue has arisen here in the office regarding a relatively new custom practiced by some co-workers here at IDG Enterprise. Computerworld’s Joyce Carpenter threw down the gauntlet ...

My inbox receives an almost daily temptation to share in the spoils of some unfortunate venture in Nigeria, involving $20m or more. The email informs me that I have been well recommended to the sender ...

Have you ever shopped at an online store once, and then found yourself dealing with a constant influx of marketing spam emails for weeks and even months? Virtually every online service wants me to ...

I got tired of endless holiday spam. Here’s how I used Apple’s temporary burner email feature to instantly shut off unwanted ...

If, like me, you spend as much time these days deleting unwanted crap from your Gmail inbox as you do actually using it for its intended communicative purpose, get ready for — surprise! — more of the ...

E-mail is the Internet’s killer app. Yet the future of e-mail is in serious jeopardy by the ever-increasing torrent of unwanted e-mail that fills our inboxes and clogs our mail servers. The statistics ...

Do you have any embarrassing or annoying e-mail experiences? Let us know, and we'll pick the best — or worst — of the bunch and share them with you. Are electronic wedding invitations OK? May I ...

David has a strong opinion about this, eloquently expressed (albeit butchered by my quoting it): If typical inboxes really were … better than … five years ago … there’d be less need for spam filters ...